However, I've learned that you should consider what your exit strategies before you purchase an investment, understand your equity spread, and be comfortable with potentially having to weather the storm (hold for 3+ years, endure multiple evictions, years with negative cashflow), Thanks,Dean

Do the minimum renovation to start and get it rented and then wait to dress it up some more when ready to sell, but that needs to be a quick turn around so you don't wait too long to capture that equity and extend your risk of enduring a market correction any longer than you have to.  

@Lane Mccracklin I plan to wholesale until I have enough capital to endure a flip in case there are unexpected cost, which from what I hear there usually are.

The Safari is a nonstop endurance canoe race in the dead of summer that starts in San Marcos, TX, and finishes 260 miles downstream after crossing a bay in the Gulf of Mexico.

A wise old proverb says never wish for the curse of an easy life, pray for the courage to endure a hard one!

Issues happen, but this rises above what a tenant shouldn't have to endure.

Good to know I am not alone and sorry that you are having to endure this too.

Endure the lower rent until the leases expire and raise them?  

They get that silvery grey look and they seem to just endure.

I am so sorry to hear about the debacle you had to endure.