Home has natural gas, walkout basement and about 75 feet of frontage.

While people may not need to be located here for week, people still want to live in the Bay Area for the schools, nature, weather etc. 

Is that the general nature of doing BRRRR deals?

Such plans are custom in nature, and often comprise more of a legal and advisory service than an investment processing service.We provide such custom plans, as do several other specialty firms you will find here supporting the BiggerPockets community.

It will involve opening up the foundation (currently a smaller window installed) and enlarging the window well.

I never recommend "Bringing one to it's former glory, with the crown molding and the stain glass, preserving the natural.... blah.)

It was already getting hot over here before COVID and now everyone likes amenities like quaint small towns, big back yards, and lots of nature close by. :-) For 2/3 the price of what you get in Seattle.

I will say I have been leading people for nearly 3 decades now and it comes very natural to me, and I have considerable formal education in sales, mastery level.

Lastly, I'm frugal by nature so I have no experience on how best to estimate rolling expenses of owning properties in Austin so if there are some insights on this, they would be greatly appreciated.To give this a bit more meat, let's say I'm estimating a 4 bed/2 bath duplex in East Austin.Looking forward to learning more about you and your experience :)Thank you!

Real estate has some national characteristics but is largely local in nature.