Acquire a taste for interesting (existing) architecture!

Then you have a house custom to one person's specific tastes that you are trying to sell to someone else.Also, not having a finished house during showings is a mistake.  

If you just walk away, you will leave them hanging with perhaps a bad taste in their mouth.

But in the end, I am aware of some "turn-key" investments is suspicious, which make me bitter-taste. 

lol  It's not my taste personally but if it is what's selling then that's the answer.If the wood is still popular versus white and it's solid you could refinish and re-stain a more contemporary color.  

"Candy" never tasted this good.Joe V

I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, so fortunately I know what REAL pizza tastes like and avoid Imo's at all cost :) Where did you go to high school/grow up in the Lou?

You can get a traditional loan this way, get a taste of the rental business, give yourself a great way to move out and continue renting it with cheaper holding costs.

One of the biggest challenges for new flippers is the tendency to remodel the property to their taste as oppose to rehabbing to market standards.

Tastefully done.