It is a very financial and tech-driven city.  

Vet tech, huh?

I would check with courses in our local community college (Wake Tech in my area) for 'adult education' classes that pertain to subjects/departments like 'real estate' or 'real estate development'.

Talk less and listen more.You can act as a referring agent and receive a fee if you don't want to act as a full time agent.Don't get involved into agency stuff (listing, selling, open houses, floor duty) this will only sap your time and energy from your real goal; making offers, making money, building your real estate empire and creating a giant net worth.

Some areas I know well, others are a giant, black hole in my mind.All of the online sites make it easy to produce geographic maps with SALE prices and SOLD prices, etc.However, where does one go to pull together a RENTAL RATE map?

The complex is three miles from Clemson University and a few more miles from a large Tech School and private university.

However, in some counties (like mine) that aren't exactly high-tech, you still have to physically go into the office to do the search.

I would love to do email, but I think the tenant class I'm dealing with isn't particularly tech savvy (my 3 other tenants don't even have computers).

I would add that it takes approximately 85 units to make the full time manager, full time maintenance tech, and a part time porter financially viable where it is not eating into your cash flow in an extreme way.

.- they're telling me it will be a complete rehab costing $40K, and judging from previous photos of the interior I saw on another website, I can believe that - it looked like a hoarder's home, and they've already removed 2-3 giant trees from the front yard that obstructed  the house.- they're telling me they have an algorithm they use with purchase price, carrying costs, closing costs as well as renovation prices that gives them the purchase price of $91,900.