About me, I am so much interested in interior design and successfully finished 3 projects of renovation.

I've been playing with some ideas of designing my own, so what I'm looking at is an MLS "featured homes" feed. 

But I only see an issue if she is going to be your business partner or to be involved.I made a deal with my interior designer wife to help me flip years ago.

You will need to learn all of these components of a development deal: land acquisition, site selection and sourcing, zoning and entitlements, architectural design management, deal underwriting, financing, construction, leasing, property management, and sale or asset management.I would suggest working for companies that already develop the types of projects that you are ambitious to build in the future. 

I'm not sure if it's designated this way, but I'd say it's a tertiary Seattle market, but probably too far for any Seattle commuting.

A lot young folks are moving in from the outer suburbs (where once their grandparents/parents lived) and buying houses to renovate and live in Detroit.https://www.michigandaily.com/section/news/detroit-housing-market-sees-growth-attracts-young-people-cityhttps://www.citylab.com/design/2018/04/can-detroits-suburbs-survive-a-downtown-revival/558764/

This is a wood-fired fireplace and I was thinking along the same lines with the decorative brickwork or temporary design to block off the front portion. 

How did you learn to design or pick out the colors and styles you used?

This entity is for raising 3rd party capital, though I am not sure whether it should be a disregarded or elect C-Corp designation for tax purposes.

These meetings are more designed to gather people that struggle with wholesaling.Indeed... other than struggling wholesalers you have the newbies that get convinced REI meetings is the answer, just like you are being convinced now... then the other REI frequenter is your traditional hard money lender that tries to make money on innocent young investors eager to start, and anyone else that tries to make money off of it somehow.Lastly you have a few cash buyers that know nothing about marketing that desperately need a property to flip.