Here are two lessons: The property was about an hour away and at the time I worked for an employer full time, so it was hard to get over there each weekend to work on it.

It is quite common for a state's definition of habitability to include at least a stove.

My advice is good advice, but it's common that most people new to wholesaling still think they are going to make a mil in a year and only want to hear the good stuff.

Yes it’s common to have an additional guarantor who has a balance sheet added as a credit enhancement.

Each bedroom shouldn't need to go through the common area to exit the building4.

On the house hack, you can divide common expenses by square footage or bedrooms, whichever is more advantageous. 

To make the job flow easier, but also (mainly) to protect myself if a customer changed their mind later ( which was common).

There is not chart, there is a website called Vyzer that tracks this if you are an investor and use their platform.I know this does not give you a specific answer of XYZ, but I hope this helpsPS:As a moderator I am not employed by BP but volunteer to moderate the posts to make sure they meet community guidelines. 

Does anyone have any insight on how to branch into government-commercial leasing or gaining employment with JLL?

But the other side of the coin your expenses go way up when your employer is now not paying you any bene's and you have to pay all your own health retirement self employment tax AMT tax etc etc. trying to do this with max leverage is going to be a long slog to replace a 150 to 200k a year job with bene's.