They avoid looking at the 5-top deal components that every passive investor should examine.

Of the Index’s three components, (1) current sale conditions rose 6 points to 84. (2) Sales expectations (in the next six months) increased 3 points to 78, and (3) buyer traffic jumped 8 points to 65, its highest level in the history of the survey.

Please define "The Allied portal is pretty rough

Congrats on making the next step and move, just make sure to have what YOUR end goal is and make sure that it is clearly defined and communicated with others.

The last thing you want to do is be stuck with an expensive hard money loan that you can’t refinance out of.Use online resources or your agent to nicely rehabbed nearby comps, define the scope of work it would take to improve your property to those standards, and then estimate the cost.

The only thing we do NOT use in it is depreciation component, as we let our tax guy take care of that. 

Aside from all the logistical and mathematical issues with supply/demand cycle of all this, there is now a new component, PROFIT. 

LLC component is utilized to create what is known as "checkbook IRA" or IRA owned LLC.

Once you define your goals, asset class of focus, etc. - you can narrow your question and receive more direct answers.

It’s the journey that defines you (not the Ls or Ws)