It's thrifty, it's efficient, and it's going to fail unless they are cleaner and more respectful than average so who would have an issue with that?

My personal opinion is to start with the basics and work your way up efficiently THEN find your niche because the EXACT same things you do to find, analyze, rehab, hold, etc is the skills you'll need for bigger and more expensive properties.

When using the BRRRR strategy, I've read that using a Conventional Loan for the purchase isn't efficient because you'd have to pay closing costs twice for the Refi.What is the difference if using a HML for the purchase?

Our idiotic city council will undoubtedly continue to retard growth, fail to plan for the inevitable, and blow resources on identity politics matters instead of what they truly should be investing time, money, and energy working on. 

. $30k renovation is really all that much, these buildings are 120 years old, and you won't be getting many efficiencies of scale since they're two separate buildings.Management will likely be 10%, unless you have other units already.Insurance looks pretty low.

The main thing to remember is that building a defined process and sticking to it will help you run an efficient company and help you win more deals and scale quickly.

With anything in finance it is all about looking at the repayment schedule and attempting to use money efficiently. 

. I also did not really invest time and energy into learning all that I could.

So my question is, how can I utilize both in an efficient manner.

It sounds like maybe this PM is not perfect or a good match OR is not operating efficiently (common practice w/ PM).First, you need to see if your PM is up for the task to begin with, ie would you hire him today if he was not your PM?