As far as the slow progress, a lot of that can be blamed on this year's violence outbreak city-wide (but mostly on the south and west sides).

I know in REI there's risk but I think most would agree that you do all you can to mitigate risk. 

Risk management is important, and there are many way to mitigate the risks, yet no way to eliminate it.

In today’s world post covid rates and terms have gone up significantly to mitigate additional risk.Also expect to pay full asking price or little more for property with owner financingCan you get decent deals still - yes but it’s not like they are in abundance.

You contact a real estate agent to mitigate the transactions between you and the seller/end buyer, you contact HMLs and GAP funders to get your flip funded, and you contact a contractor to do the work. 

Understanding the legal landscape will help you navigate the investment process and mitigate any potential risks.7.

I recently bought a property and got a radon test done on it and the results were 5 Pci/L.Is this acceptable or should I take immediate action to get this mitigated and lowered down?

How will you mitigate any defects or problems during or after the contract?  

Try to enumerate an many plan assumptions, risks, risk mitigation plans, stress-testing scenarios etc as possible, yet without overly dwelling on it either.

Others might be fine with taking risk, but least by doing this a person can get an idea of what might go wrong.e) Legal document analysis: it will usually take a few days to go through the legal document properly, as almost inevitably there are tons of gotchas that either have to be explained, or mitigated with a side letter.That is the very short summary of what I do.