They are accredited, which is a very important measure, thank you for mentioning. logos and statements were on all four sites I mentioned. 

Do you have weekly actionable/measurable goals?

@William Hochstedler and @Ryan Mullin What I'm hearing you fellas say is that investing in marginal neighborhoods is good for a neighborhood but may not have significant measurable impact until you get the density and/or grassroots locals to push it.

The 2% rule is a useless, terrible measure.

., if assessed value is below market value and I hope the seller puts more stock in assessed value as a measure of market value than I do).The best way to determine market value is to look at similar properties ("comparable" properties aka "comps") that have sold recently in the same area, ideally within the last 3 months and ideally 3 comps.

I️ couldn’t visit as often, which I️ believe contributed to the delay for project 1.4) one of my bigger screw ups for project 2 was I️ didn’t measure the door width before purchasing appliances.

I think that multi-family properties have been drilled into my head from a lot of the content on BP, so maybe I should start to think outside the box here if we're looking at both cash flow and appreciation opportunities.So I guess it makes sense to measure cash-flow of an entire property instead of maximizing the # of doors we have.

CoC measures how well the investor performs and Cap Rate, in general, measures how well the asset performs.

Are there preventative measures that can be taken to insure that probability can be lowered? 

Your credit is a measure of financial trustworthiness.