-Decide between fixer-uppers, which offer customization and appreciation potential but require more work, or turn-key properties, which provide immediate rental income with minimal effort.Hiring a Property Manager:-A property management company ensures efficient marketing, tenant screening, rent collection, and maintenance.

If the ARV is strong enough you can get enough to cover it with minimal closing cost. 

And, get ready for your first 5 or 7 or 10 years to be a time of investing - minimal cash flow, but hopefully some of the other benefits of RE.Hope this helps

Selling the property the same day for $50,000 presented a unique investment opportunity with minimal risk and high returns.

In order to minimize the amount of time you'll spend hands on managing, I suggest finding a good cleaning crew and an on-call handy man or maintenance company.

You can get high night rates during football season and holidays, but outside of that they drop rates below $100/night to minimize vacancies.

Maybe I'll branch out in the future, but not sure yet.Slow flipping or house hacking would be great, but I have a 4 month old and we love our house, so that's off the table.I guess I'm looking at ways to minimize risk when starting out.

It is not minimal in cost but I think it can help in most cases. 

That statement alone will cause you to move too quickly and take too much leverage which minimizes those solid investments you already have.Ask yourself, why do you want to scale faster?

Any advice on delaying a purchase until the market settles a bit?