The answers are individual specific; people can tell you what they'd do, but without a thorough knowledge and understanding YOU it won't have much relevance.Here's my suggestion - read books, search for biographical information, and become familiar with people who have accumulated a good size portfolio of real property, to see how their ambitions, experiences, knowledge, and personal attributes align with yours.  

I had the same problem, but attributed it to FHA appraisal more than just a lack of appraisers.

Milwaukee City Assessor's office doesn't seem to offer property attributes for parcels listed as mercantile apartments.The $25K rehab cost is the roughest swag in this entire calculation, in my opinion.

Which, for all intents and purposes, are ALL his projects that anyone knows or gives a damn about.Lets stop pretending that you or I could rebuild and remap NYC, in such an impactful and unapologetic way, even if our dad loaned us a mere $58M.Please read the book, and I wonder if you will still attribute his early success due to luck or money.

Can this direct mail expense be attributed directly to the purchased property in some form as an expense?

it seems in our area that land takes a while to sell and sometimes parcels are on for a year or more (which I attribute to not being priced right - like an existing house), but is that typical because of study periods?

I attribute it to having to  learn new skillsets (such as firewalls) and the market in general.  

Even though that is the case, we saw a slowdown in sales many attribute to price.

This was attributed to the high asking price and the low income tenants.

I attribute my success to 2 factors.  1- unrelenting determination.  2- the ability to admit and identify that I need to utilize people who are better at a particular skill set than me and check my big head at the door.