There are many more and many more personal goals such as getting married and starting a family, adopting my first GSP dog, traveling to Wyoming and Montana and spending more time in nature, just to share a few.

Human nature is fallible and any business that exists out there is run by humans.

As for the initial post, I would ask a few questions to shed some guiding light.

Very few updates were necessary for the property because it was a new build, yet we made interior updates as all dimmer lights and updated the bathroom tub.

Job included inside work of leveling floors, installing flooring, paint walls, kitchen cabinets, etc in both units, as well as lay a new driveway, fence the back yard, provide attic fans, and install electric to the crawlspace to add lights and a sump pump.

Naturally your property must sell before you can take title to the new one, but nothing prevents you from getting it under contract and make the process as smooth as possible.  

Do you need cash flow from it for income or will light to no cash flow work if you can groundswell appreciation on a good asset?

Cash-flow is for "keeping the lights on" as in covering operational expenses to defend against any need for additional capital investment. 

Obviously it's good from a nature preservation point of view but it's a very different from an investment point of view. 

I’m conservative by nature, and would never be comfortable overlooking this restriction.