When people buy residential most often they buy off of feelings, layout, and amenities.

Most people are happy to cash flow when they put 20% down.

If you want, I'll take that deal as the designer and do it for 30%.Hire the designer to manage the project and come up with the concepts. you retain 100% of the profits.

@Marius FleischerYou will have 50% of people tell you that you should invest there and 50% say otherwise or provide areas they feel are betterEach area has positives and negatives - my recommendation is to visit each of these areas then shortlist them and continue to figure out where to invest

There have been way to many people who think that their STR is worth 100k more than the exact same house 2 doors down.

Many people do this.

Here's a concept.. buy a fixer house and use your teens for free labor.

My company has a departmental structure however all of our staff members' phone numbers and emails are on our website so people can get in touch with whoever is best suited to tackle a specific issue.

A lot of people think that rates are going to drop in the near future so they opt for lower prepayment penalties. 

My fervor and desire to jump into the game and become financially free was quickly deterred by people telling me I needed to get through school and start making money before I should get into REI.