This area is an amazing place to live, and for that reason highly competitive in terms of real estate investing.

Milwaukee rents continue to go up, we are now the 3rd most competitive market in the US, ahead of NY and LA..

The hurdle I believe is lack of Real Estate knowledge Any advice on a real estate education source?

They want competitive pay for subpar Work.  

@Jay Hinrichs wouldn't eliminating Brokers decrease competition, and access to competitive offerings? 

I understand today EV pentration is next to nothing but in 10 to 15 years  seems to me MF that wants to stay competitive will need more than a few chargers .. if you have say 50 units and ony 30% have an EV U need at least 15 charging cords  and then you would need an additional parking area etc etc.. 

Loans or lack thereof don’t impact tax calculations—only net profit matters.

We did look at brokenbow, beautiful area but it looks like there is a lot of competition there now.  

In my limited experience, HML may not care too much about your credit but they will care about your, presumed, lack of experience.  

there would be no way you would get financed for this given your lack of knowledge of the subject..