Patience with decisions and follow up is critical. 

I am hopefully going to start bookkeeping part time for a larger multi-family complex to better understand how they function (thoughts on this?). 

That's a critical consideration. 

Is there any real difference between the two types of sales or do they function the same way? 

There are clunky ways of running renovations, but I was unhappy with the functionality.  

This leads to evaluations of the property not so much on the cosmetic aspects, but more so on the function and mechanics, I.E.

Thanks for enduring the criticism to make a difference for others.

Some people have criticized the .25% increase in interest rate HOWEVER, it's literally only 5 years and if you do the math you would have paid way more than that in loan interest if you choose to pay it off on your own terms.

Those calculations are a function of the market conditions in the area and the quality of the property you are looking to invest.

if you are repairing an unusable function then it would be a repair.