Background, credit, past evictions, etc.... you'll find great successes and abysmal failures with section 8.

I believe heavily in the principle of hard work for those things that take longer to achieve typically reap the greatest reward. 

If anyone else has experience in this, can you advise to coursework, certifications, or other tools you have used for your success in this field?

Otherwise, I am not sure what it would achieve.

To allow her to qualify for a mortgage, to afford to pay, and to achieve relative independence.This purchase has always been about helping her.Larry

I am open to putting in full time work on my off hours and days to be successful in RE, but I have to get my own place.

So if your 2% CoC investment also throws out 20% IRR (i.e. because of potentially insane appreciation), then it's obviously an excellent investment, but this is rarely achievable unless you invest in west or east coast and have a good crystal ball.Oh by the way, you can do all the above analysis without using "cap rate".

How to be successful in real estate investing and what to do if you have no money…I give this outline to a lot of people I mentor, some listen and some don't.

Once I have achieved financial independence, I would probably be my own GC on my own investments.

I have close friends who have invested in wholesale multi-family properties in Bakersfield with much success and am interested in doing the same.