Focus on fundamentals: strong rent-to-price, stable nearby jobs, simple renovation scope, and a small cushion after expenses.

BUGETING, SLOW FLIP, OZ FUND.Then you could follow up with a book called DON'T BE LAZY, DRUGS ARE BAD, GET A JOB, DON'T MARRY A GUY THAT LIVES IN HIS PARENTS' BASEMENT, HOT GIRLS GENERALLY DON'T MAKE GOOD WIVES HELLS HOT TO. 

Right now, you are treating it more like a job than a business.

While DCs do not add a ton of long term jobs I do feel they adding to the city via construction jobs and taxes (longer terms once the abatements expire).

I have 100K cash saved up to begin investing and am ready to leave my day job if all goes well in the near future.

Areas near transit, universities, or job centers usually attract renters.

There is so much that goes in a business, rental rates, rental tax, inventory,  job costing, payroll, business analytic reports etc, QiuickBooks does handle what I have mentioned here. 

Yes, it seems so could be the FF update but could just be the climate for jobs.

Even with essentially zero job growth and unemployment slowly ticking up, now 4.3%.

Most newer folks in the investment space I have encountered what immediate results so they can quit their jobs as soon as possible - they think real estate is like a money vending machine, rather than a physical asset to invest in and let your money grow over the next 15+ years.