I'll reiterate some advice I got a thousand times and wish I would have taken when I started out.

A few thousand bucks?

It's been demonstrated in Europe (thousands of times) and even in the U.S.A. (10s of times) that you can build a house or apartment building to Passivhaus standards for 10-15% more upfront capital cost than base code construction.    

A friend of mine purchased a 6 thousand dollar sport bike for 1500 bucks from someone in a tight spot.

Unfortunately, my cost of installing AC was much higher than yours.. in the 6-8k range, and would not have bumped the ARV much more than a couple thousand.  

THOUSANDS BELOW MARKET!!

Stay out of real estate, unless you are willing to spend thousands on EXPERTS.

I've had partnerships where my partner took title in his company and we had no written agreements (and I handed over hundreds of thousands of dollars).

All that available for 1 month's education and a thousand or 2 in costs.I would suspect that the average agent is not rolling in dough because it's so hard to get clients, because there are so many agents, because commissions are so high, etc.

Would you be comfortable giving a guy who watched the entire season on flip this house several time tens of thousands of dollars because they want to be a real estate investor?