Use common sense your brain is your friend. 

Your strategy will depend on your goal. 

.💫 My immediate goal is to purchase my first rental property within a year.

He said the basic premise of his community is to accelerate my goal to achieve financial freedom 8-15 years earlier than I could with general passive real estate investing that most investors are interested in.

Yes, my goal is to invest in apartment buildings so that is good information to know about

As the end buyers were local, we could provide housing solutions to local residents and keep home ownership a goal for local residents.

Also look at your overall goals/expectations for the rehab.

There are a lot of ways to get into real estate depending on your skills, goals, and time.

is your goal to offset your W2 taxes and take advantage of doing a cost segregation?

This is quite common (at least in our multifamily experience here in Northern Nevada).