I've been looking at zillow and redfin and all of the other sites, and it seems there are only fully remodeled houses on there, so essentially, I would be paying full retail. 

I also get a monthly management fee of 8% revenue.

If he did, then the apartment we could afford which essentially double.

One reason I no longer invest in Pinal County is the assessor does not have a public download for the database (that was maybe 10-years ago, may have changed now) so you needed to buy it from the the State dept. of revenue. 

The shortfall that most info product marketing promoters don't warn you us that there are a lot of very basic, foundational aspects of real estate that are, admittedly not exciting, but essential and necessary.

Cut out all non-essentials and work, work, work to do this right.  

Right now I'm in the research phase and I just have to ask what is it that are essential needs to know about investing?

Essentially, finding a buyer and putting them in touch with a seller then having the buyer pay you a fee for bringing them the deal.

Otherwise, net worth on the books is worthless without increased revenue to go with it, and revenue won't increase if it's still just the same single unit rental.Otherwise, can you please give me a real world example of anything with greater rent/cost returns?  

@Paul Callaway on Property "A" you can request a HELOC after all of your updates and then have that money available to you, this is essentially your money and you can use it for what ever you would like.