If you need help with your next project I'd love to help in anyway I can, I'm a licensed general contractor in both North and South Carolina. 

GasElectricTrash (if not city-covered)Insurance averagesVacancy assumptions for specific zip codesMaintenance & CapEx benchmarks for older Philly propertiesI want to be able to analyze deals on my own nightly without constantly needing to reach out to my agent for every data point.Are there any go-to sites, calculators, public records tools, or general % rules you use for Philly specifically?

Also, there is no growth in Baton Rouge and Louisiana in general, so if you buy in a bad area, do not expect it to build out/gentrify. 

Sellers generally want to be out of the deal within a few years, so you need a plan for bank financing.

Some are a little more hardball then others but in general, reasonable.

I know nothing about this program but in general outside of the required degree for my career I won't pay for anything I can teach myself. 

For me it started as a mental framework that I refined over time through a lot of trial and error — and honestly, some mistakes that could have been avoided if I had been more intentional upfront.What I found is that most people have a general sense of what they want but haven't actually written it down in a structured way.

My friend and I are both students thinking about commercial/corporate real estate and we got into an argument:In your opinion, are CRE negotiations generally one of the more irritating/long-winded parts of the job, or is it easy/fun?

When I do things on appreciation, I am NOT using some general number plucked from thin air.

We found issues with mold,  generally dirty conditions, and several things that will need repair in excess of wear and tear to make the house ready, should these tenants leave.