Finding and retaining help to increase the pace is critical to me and my business and is currently my greatest challenge keeping me from expansion.   

Right now finding properties that make economic sense to rehab is a challenge.

I can be home for long periods of time so I want to fill my downtime with something interesting, challenging and profitable.

The natural lighting from windows and the areas that are not well lit, pose issues. 

My day job is analytically oriented, so by nature I won't make a deal unless I'm sound in the numbers; at the same time I've seen it mentioned here numerous times that the biggest recommendation is to start making actions.Hope your week is going well as we approach Thanksgiving, and as always thanks for the advice!

I operate in the Lehigh Valley as a landlord and am acquiring additional properties, to flip and to hold.A natural way for you to get started might be to gain control, if not ownership, of some off-campus  student housing.

Getting started can certainly be frightening, and the challenge of getting a spouses approval is a story that's been shared many times. 

@Anita Fofie,The challenge I see is that the building may need more to get it back into production than it's worth on the resale market.

It's becoming second nature to look at property this way, it's weird.

If there are a lot of rentals in the area,  it most likely means that the rent to cost ratio is high (that's good), but like was stated;  if there are more rental than tenants, the market is too saturated, and rents will start naturally going down as landlords try to fill empty units.