I am a strong advocate for their effectiveness allowing you to do substantially more with your money. 

The only ones who are benefitting are the associations in taking your hard earned money. 

December and Jan are the least attractive times of year to move for a variety of reasonsIf you get a good application with Feb move in, take it.

Turnkey companies sell these properties to out of state investors at substantially higher than market price prices.

Rents have gone up substantially and so have home prices.

If you have substantial (usually means 5 digits or more) donations, tax planning opportunities can get very complex.

Option 2 - Focus on Your Primary Residence:This is a more conservative route but could make sense if the primary home rebuild adds substantial value.

There is no shame in taking some time to hunker down and reassess everything, and potentially sell. 

If all I had ready to deploy was $60k I'd put it somewhere until I grew it to a more substantial number. $60k doesn't buy a whole lot these days that's not going to come with a pretty substantial amount of risk. 

On another note; how do you get accurate data on flipping success rates when for a very vast array of them, it's not reported or substantiated anywhere?