He communicates only via email and only up until 10am est.

Quote from @Isuf Aruci: i live in the NY area and would love to build a house or a mid apartment building. but the land search is very very difficult. also lets say i found the land, where would i get information and see if its buildable, also how do you calculate a land to see if its worth building or not.   

We'd be interested in taking a look and providing an additional opinion to the offers you may be getting.

Adding an ADU (which I know you made another post about this but the cash flow wasn't there), is one way or moving and converting your existing home into a rental is another.I would considering using funds you have to buy properties cash, get them up and running, and then do the cash out refinance (called Buy, Renovate, Rent, Refi, Repeat/BRRRR) in low cost states.

Should I replace the entire roof or just try to manage the smaller parts?

It should never come up unless their clients are constantly offering you much more than other agent’s clients.

I am new to posting but have been listening to the podcast for years now.

I would be foolish at the rate he gives me not to take him up on it; I just do not know how to leverage the property to buy another one.

Unfortunately as good as TurboTax and other online softwares are, they don't always pick up the most beneficial items with rentals.

You don't want to focus on the renters of Section 8 because that can come off as discriminatory as a landlord.