I can't speak to trying to make a quick flip, not my business - presumably it's not as good a situation as you can't wholesale evict now or massively raise rents, and or change the dynamic of the building in under 2 years. 

One, because finding people in my market to do good reliable work is challenging at best, even without the additional dynamic of a short time window for the work needing completion (i.e. turnovers with vacancy / occupation taking place 24 hours apart). 

Short term and even with a $300 per month utility expense, we would still be cash flowing ~$300 per month, so it's not a huge concern, but as this is a dynamic expense, we would be looking to transfer utility expenses back to the tenants. 

I’m supposed to go to Indy in 2 weeks to visually inspect the grounds and interiors of the homes with the broker and a mobile home contractor. 

East Coast and West Coast cities tend to be more dynamic than cities in the heartland of America, and their markets rotate faster.

The economy is stable but not as dynamic as the larger Texas cities - sort of slow and steady.

Again I'm sure we'll meet people as we go to the local meetings and meetups, and I have a number of connections now with different investors that I'm making the rounds with, but I just think this BP group is very dynamic and well connected and I thought I'd share my need here. 

The long time and capital intensiveness for feedback in addition to the validity of an AVM over long time scales (when the market dynamics are nonlinear) are all important challenges to the strategy for sure.HouseCanary (https://www.housecanary.com/) has seemed to have a lot of success in the SFH segment, but it is unclear how well Enodo (https://www.enodoinc.com/) and GeoPhy are doing in the multifamily space (https://geophy.com/).

I’d say don’t call me unless the building is visually on fire ! 

Get multiple bids, check contractor references, get visuals of their recent work.