Understanding there is significant risk in doing this with no experience, try to focus on contractors who can do most of the work themselves like kitchen/bath renos and limit how much they sub; I suspect this should help expand your margins a bit.

I am a full time real estate agent as well and love teaching buyers about investment and the growth potential real estate has.

It’s also taking up roughly 10% of your main photo’s real estate. oThere’s another photo in the kitchen that has a trashcan in it.

I just meant more of not wanting someone to micromanage and question every decision, especially about means and methods, or what color the kitchen should be.

David, many first timers are actually taking the strategy you mentioned, and that would be to buy a 2-4 unit and live in one of the units and rent the remaining.

I would not get my license unless you want to be a full-time real estate agent for a job. 

Unless you're going to be a full time Real Estate Professional, focus on your career.

It was a duplex that required full rehab (roof, siding, new retaining wall...cosmetic rehab upstairs with HVAC, kitchen, bath & deck...downstairs got cosmetics with new kitchen & bath with mini-splits for HVAC)3.

We don't believe there is anything that needs to be done with her lease, so we reply "Noted, sorry about your loss"4) Day 6: dishwasher leaks so much soap duds in the kitchen that it looks like it snowed there.

A great way to answer situations like this is to reverse engineer the question - If you had 250K-300K sitting in the middle of your kitchen table, would you go out and buy this specific property and land, in the condition that it is, and want to monetize it or develop it?