Actually just painted... it used to be pink and green :|The top two on the right are roll down shutters (with the crank through the interior wall), and the rest are accordions on tracks.

At a bare minimum, you need to know enough to be able to weed out a good deal from a bad deal. 

With a reno timeline of a year, the ideal thing is to buy something that is BARELY habitable.

I'm just curious how you're the expert who can make these broad generalizations besides from what you've seen here on BP, which is just a bare microcosm of the wholesaling community. 

The market is moving very fast and houses are barely lasting a week(if priced right) on the market let alone off market!

Further — while the qualification and documentation are much less than conventional mortgages — the interest rates are just barely higher (typically less than 1% more).

If you do the bare minimum, expect nothing more.

A lot of the properties I’m looking at do not add up and some just barely breaking even. 

I think it could work as one big MTR and just barely as a LTR so I feel like I have multiple exit strategies, and it is a house I feel comfortable living in as-is.

I've currently been looking at 2-3b and 2-3ba row homes and am finding only a few deals that barely squeeze out cash flow or just about break even.