However, competition is unbelievably intense at the moment with very little inventory (https://www.recenter.tamu.edu/...).

Our inventory has loosened a bit so more buyers are getting into houses.

You partner with someone when they bring something to the table that will make your business improve exponentially.

I would possibly have made a better decision on what improvements to make if I had sought their help during the rehab process.

Those who have put off projects, and are now starting, will still find a lack of labor, longer timelines, inventory shortages or delays, higher costs from last year 10%-20%, more regulation, building/energy code increases, SDC increase costs.  

Here's what I've got: Purchase price: 85K, down payment: 16K (don't want to buy the property outright at this time), income: 1000, total expenses: $680, cash flow: $320, CoC ROI: 20.12%, NOI: 8,148The house doesn't need any major improvements at the moment, and I was considering once the tenants leases are up in 2022 then I might consider making some improvements.

I don't want to say you need to provide your tenants with clean units because many tenants are pigs.If you can't get your rents increase to at least $700 per unit then even though you paid a very low price for the property I still think you purchase a dog because the problem with low rents is when you need to do improvements you don't have enough money coming in.Example.

Here you declare the use of the money you are borrowing (flip, rental, business inventory, etc).

The number one factor of what you buy is how much capital you have access to...that means its a combination of purchase price, location, condition, and availability of inventory...I would add these as metrics alongside the cash flow.

There's been a lot of commercial development (new chain restaurants and strip mall improvements), but it still has some rough blocks.