However, as a person who got a Finance degree from Haas Business School at UC Berkeley and over $10m in real estate not including a couple of businesses I thought I would chime in with my thoughts on what he could do to help him.

Lots of us engineers in here by the way you will notice (M.E. degree for me but I.T. most of my career)

I can see two sides to this: one, he wants to move and can't afford two rents so he is finding an excuse; two, the room actually did have mold which isn't habitable and it is actually cold at night (around 60 degrees). 

Did you need a college degree for it?

After 4 years of undergrad, a masters degree, two years of studying for the MCAT while working full time, a ton of stress, tears, and sleepless nights, I found out last week my dream is coming true.

My excavation is lower than typical to some degree because the builder I'm using owns his own equipment and had his own employees as the operators.

I was familiar to some degree with the laws there.

Rents have crept up, but remain very low Tenant profile is regressing as well, with poverty rates going up, more households reporting using SNAPS (supplemental nutrition assistance program) year over year, and a general decrease in number of individual with college degrees in the area. 

This is heavily vegetated hillside and the slope is about 50% (28 degrees).

I'm working on a project for my master's degree in applied math; in particular, it involves being able to consider multiple factors at once to rank potential investments for which one yields the most efficient return on investment.The method analyzes inputs and outputs for which property most efficiently maximizes outputs, given its particular inputs.Inputs I'm using right now: Down Payment Amount, Rehab Costs, and Mortgage Amount.Outputs I'm using right now: Monthly Cash Flow, Cash-on-Cash Return, Cap Rate, and Initial Equity.For inputs, I figured down payment is a given, and I decided to keep rehab costs as its own category (rather than lumping it in with down payment as a total initial cash investment) because a higher rehab cost will usually have more time and effort that go along with it.