You need to be willing to expand your comfort zone and create/take advantage of opportunities that are outside your wheelhouse;2.

I would look outside the traditional areas where most investors look in GR (Downtown, Kentwood, Wyoming, the Lakeshore) and start buying in more rural areas that are just a little too far out for most investors. 

The other problem is building outside of the norms for a particular neighborhood.

The wall I'd be removing is brick -- the original outside back wall of the house.Anyone know if that wall being the original brick makes this project cost- and complexity-prohibitive?

These are all outside of summerlin and the strip. 

If I operate a rental property within a state to a resident of that state, it should be outside regulation of the Federal government.Taking clause of the Fifth amendment states "Nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation".

A RE license is real-time access to vacant properties, showings, and the more important thing, the MLS so you can run real comps and proper ARV and know rent rolls that you may not have access to outside of the MLS on syndicated sites.

It was because the CDC doesn't have the authority to issue such a moratorium, so anything outside of that (states, etc.) stand for the time being.

as it appears to an outsider like me, and to the hordes relocating out of the state. 

Mind you this is after numerous run ins with this guy, because I made it a point to go introduce myself as well as made it a point to say hello every single time I see him outside.