Good luck on your journey and feel free to reach out if you ever need any guidance or advice.

Pay off your debt and stay debt-free from now on (except for appreciating assets like real estate)2.

No one's time is free and being able to connect with others would be worth paying for, for a community with direct contact. 

If you are ever at the North Carolina Real Estate Investor Association meeting in Raleigh every month, feel free to connect. 

(of course, some properties are clearly above or below the line, but many are in a gray area)If that weren't the case, you wouldn't expect different appraisers to come up with radically different values for the same home (they often do) and, in fact, you wouldn't even need appraisers as you would just be able to automate the process (you can't).So, given that an appraiser's personal opinion and bias will play into the equation, it makes sense that if you can bias the appraiser IN FAVOR OF a higher number, you should certainly try to do so.

If not, thinking as a free course. 

I am wanting to spend the next 1-2 years managing someone's security deposit flow for free in order to learn about the current state of affairs. 

Everything else is either free, or the tenant pays when they use it.

Feel free to hit me up if you're looking into the Detroit market at all.

As a PMC, we wouldn't want to do any free work for an owner terminating our services.