Does SBA 7a have decent interest rates in today's crazy rate environment or are there other options that might have better rates? 

List potential renovation items.You will not have enough money to make this an “ideal” property, so prioritize renovation items in the following order:Health and safety - Do all items necessary to provide a safe living environment.

Done em in smaller manufacturing environments for added offices but still had get a title 24 PE.

I am torn between starting small and putting a bit more into the market due to our inflationary environment.  

I am very much a product of my investing environment, and my specific advice is local but the rationale is hopefully global applicable and a unique POV from the masses on BP.Quick story to reinforce my points on this ... my parents sold a property in SoCal for ~$150k late '70s ... it was cash flow positive and had doubled from their purchase but they thought it was overpriced and couldn't possibly go up any further, they were right in the short term as it stayed flat for the next several years, in the long term it was a duplex a few blocks from the ocean and enough said (ouch!

I provide a clean, safe living environment for my tenants and act respectfully and responsibly as a LL.

In the deals I’m doing currently work best as flips but would also work if I BRRRR’d them into roughly a 12% interest rate environment assuming my ARV is accurate.

I'm a big believer in long-term buy and hold, with a property that positively cash flows with conservative assumptions, in a growth environment. 

Unless any coaching you're getting deeply addresses that, it's not going to move the needle much for you.If you are willing to fully immerse yourself in the BiggerPockets community here, I'm willing to bet actual money that you could get more value here than you would dropping 40 large for "coaching and mentorship."

We’re delaying upcoming project starts until late April, mainly so we can get through the first two weeks of lock down and then reassess how things are going.I think you are safe to continue work, and that approach will help minimize economic down side for you (especially keeping in mind the longer you hold a flip in this environment, the more likely the real estate market is to change).