Harden!

Even hardened investors with boots on the ground and years of experience are struggling very hard to find deals that even remotely pencil out.  

If there is asbestos, then it may be cheaper to have a painter spray the ceilings with egg shell, let it cure and harden for a month and then come back to skim over the hardened popcorn.

"Stuff" hardens when no one is flushing water regularly and this can cause a back up.  

I try to spend as much time hardening the units up front so long term you don't get those late night plumbing or electrical issues.

Your first property will be great for learning, and hardening long term numbers.

Give the customer what they want--reap the profit.3 little pigs, one built a house out of straw, one out of wood, and one out of bricks--now they all go for market rent and landlords own them.Th Hippies started out like this too...carefree living on the "Streets of San Francisco" selling incense and peppermints.Then supposedly (as the story goes) they morphed into hard working yuppies who most went broke when the economy changed to the dot com in the early 90's.Then in the 90's (when Harley Davidson Motorcycles was struggling for sales, to the public the Yuppies all become "Successful" New York stock brokers who rode Harley Davidson Motorcycles--until sales picked up--then silence (now they call them Boomers --having been hippies or not).And battle hardened Gen X of the middle eastern wars does not exist...so it seems....

I also like brick houses and harden them with vinyl plank flooring so that damage is reduced at turnovers.

It will harden up and be pretty solid.

Quote from @Nathan Harden: That depends.