That said, I am thinking bout building a nice home or buying one that's still very modern (2500 sq/ft min) and will rent to students (similar to me) that will be attending school with the Air Force in future years.

I have about 4 or 5 pages of them and trying to find one is getting like a search for a needle in a haystack, or in modern parlance, locating a 4-byte string in a 4k cluster of data without a search function.

I am just finishing my required education for my Residential Builders license and will begin working on the education requirements for Real Estate Salesperson and possibly Limited Appraiser later on down the road.I currently am renting, and in about 2 years my finances will allow that to change, in the mean time, I have plenty of time to do some market research into a few cities I have in mind to move to and start buying houses to fix up and modernize to eventually rent or sell.

Cheap rates and modern tech are great, but none of that matters if they can't actually get you to the closing table.

Brick and mortar brokerages could soon be a thing of the past unless they develop a very specific niche. eXp is a solid fit for a lot of the modern day agents that often have multiple streams of revenue (investing, marketing, lead gen, recruiting, etc). 

I decided to branch out a little more with the design and incorporated shiplap wall, herringbone concrete floors and truly embraced "modern farmhouse" trend.

For example, modern RE investments intensively use information technologies.

Modern architecture, unfurnished rental going for about $2700 per month (2016 - 2020).

One of my friends own a A.C company and when I purchased my last house I asked him to change my old --but functioning fine-- a.c unit (20+ yrs), he told me to hold my horses because older a.c's were made to last, and when they brake it, it is often times a simple inexpensive fix (unlikely the modern ones that are made to last 5 years and when it brakes it is better to change to a new one than fixing it).

Turned spindles don't match the modern vibe you are going for in the rest of the house.7.