You need to spend just as much time finding investors as you do finding deals. 

If it is consumer spending or they lost a job and didn't figure stuff out that's a no go as I would be in the same boat if they lose their job again but I get medical. 

For example, I  never hear stories of the turn key provider spending extra sound proofing between units or investing in better quality fixtures or other high touch building materials so that the end buyer can enjoy reduced maintenance costs and better tenant engagement.

This might reduce the time and resources you spend finding buyers for each deal, which could, in turn, lower your marketing costs and the need for extensive negotiations.Also, to clarify, the exclusive buyer agreement would only apply to the leads/addresses that the buyer provides.

The only things left for me to do was to add appliances in the kitchen, add a fence in the front and had a lot of tree that were almost falling on the house after hurricane Baril, so I had to spend almost 5k in cutting the trees.

It depends on if you got to the level of a trade or busienss which would determine if its ordinary income or not.Then the amount of time you spend on the business would determine if its passive or non-passive.

You'll still need some serious SEO and/or ad-spend.

Your payment is lower but to recoup what you'd be spending to get there is going to take a good chunk of time. 

It is not a one day process...just be ready to spend some time on this phase before you start construction/rehab on your future deals.Please share your building permit  experience in City of ATL  ..............................................

Basically, your paying of your property own it free in clear but never been able to spend a dollar in 7 years (hope I don't get run over by a bus on year 7).