Just a hunch Real Estate doesn’t take a big brain or a Harvard degree to become successful at it.

I am finishing up my degree from Old Dominion University in finance with a concentration on RE and a minor in civil engineering technology.

Its almost like I don't even have a bachelors degree.

To what degree you want to be involved with your tenant's personal life is really your own decision.  

But it can get up to 110 degrees in the summer and down to 10 degrees in the winter.

Crazy thing is too, she has a masters degree! 

I am graduating May 2020 with a degree in civil engineering.

With that same thought, the inspector will uncover items of every degree of size, that you will want to fix or correct during the renovation. 

You're wanting to compare something that's been around for centuries, that has verifiable track records, government regulations (if you're going to state universities, as opposed to for-profit diploma mills), and thousands of people that can say "I got my degree, and have a job," or "I got a degree, and still with spit."

$2000 in annual maintenance for a 90 year-old brick building in a city with 100+ degree weather in the summer and 5 months of snow and ice in the winter?