If you're looking for a real estate book, I highly recommend "Estimating Rehab Costs" by J.

If they are a high producing broker, they should be able to provide you with an abundance of insights related to that market.

Or maybe rates stay high and he starts feeling the squeeze with his investors if/when he has to refi at 6% or sell at a price I would have paid today.Back to Bjorn's point, keep reviewing and underwriting deals.  

I highly recommend starting by tuning in to the BiggerPockets podcast.

Another clause that I would highly recommend since you are licensed is a buyer's disclosure stating that you are a licensed agent but you are acting as a principal. 

I don't see how building a fourplex would be any different (at a high level), assuming you have an experienced builder lined up to do the construction. 

The price was too high, initially wanted to combine the units to make a duplex.

That seems high, but there are people who will pay that. 

It was actually under contract with a contingent offer for months, so I suspected something may be up because at the time the velocity of transactions was insanely high in my area and closing times were as low as a week.

After hearing about those tax court cases and that REPS is highly litigated, I hope my friends re-examine their time logs and delete those webinar and Zoom office hours.