You must not follow your instinct and attempt to invest as little as possible into the renovations thinking "If someone is willing to live in this neighborhood there is no way they have standards". 

The property is in the Joshua Tree market so the next couple of months is the tail end of peak season and will start to slow going into April/May, so I'd like to be ready to operate as soon as possible to capture max revenue before summer. 

We've put in a tremendous amount of work to make the RTR Academy community and education as beneficial as possible for investors of all experience levels. 

I would verify as much as possible which is looks like you know income on the tenant and maybe some other stuff too.  

Talk to @Grant Shipman about a possible different way of marketing them to the subgroup who gets it.

Hi Y'all:I'm exploring the possibility of getting into Transactional Funding and would love to hear your experiences from both the lender and borrower perspective.

@Brody Trott you'll want to run the numbers on as many duplexes in your chosen market as possible.

Do you have any projections for what will happen with the insurance market for this year, or is it even possible to project? 

Take the advice from @Nathan Gesner and @Bud Gaffney and learn as much as possible BEFORE buying RE.

So there are options available, but my goal is to avoid having to put more cash into the deal if possible.