Ultimately, it depends on how quickly you want to act and your comfort with leverage.

If you have a lot of liquid cash + high credit score, it could be beneficial to use a loan (to keep yourself liquid) and then repay quickly. 

Please don't get distracted by the get-rich-quick crowd that's making money by selling their courses.

@Katie Smith He probably needs a quick closing (cash) to get the deal done.

Are there certain things that you may be able to improve quickly and cheaply to assuage fears of some buyers?

Having the funds to handle evictions and turn units quickly is the key to stabilizing the property and protecting the investment.

Since you are looking for full real estate cycle experience, you will quickly be able to weed out most of them.

And we rarely need to use them.Tenants sign and initial each page of the condition report at signing, we quickly go through the property and let them take as long as they want.Ideally at move out they would sign the condition report, but this is nor normally done. 

I love your journey and quick turn around time to go all in.

They tend to go out quickly and rarely look as good.