If you have the down payment, want to invest where you live, and have chosen SFH as your niche, that seems like it's viable option.  

The capstone can be anything to do with real estate and I have chosen to "pitch a deal" where I find a deal and write and present on what it would take to execute.

But because I don't want to leave my future success up to hearsay, I have chosen real estate as my vehicle to a successful life.

@Troy FeldmanIt sounds like the exit strategy you have chosen will not work in the market you have chosen.

We have chosen to seek out a third party provider.

The rehab looked great and I love the materials chosen. 

Some of our tenants have chosen ATT U-Verse, which uses phone lines.

It's all about the guarantor on the lease, experience in that chosen industry, a track record of success, liquidity and net worth of the guarantor, and how easily attachable the assets are if something goes wrong.For instance I would never front money for tenant improvements on a business that is not a proven performer.

I think it was just arbitrarily chosen.

Sell, then buy the worst house for the lowest price (the one with the most unrealized potential, for value adding later) in your chosen area closer to work/school with your $200k deposit, and then later, go the HELOC route to BRRRR the best compromise-properties your research arrives at between distance, neighborhood appreciation play, and rent returns.