On paper the cheap houses look great, but the reality is they are harder to manage, have higher turn over and cost a lot more time and money.Buying before you retire is a good idea because once you retire, your ability to borrow money is going to decrease as you don't have a regular income from a job.As you want to fix houses up, why not buy a house that needs a bit of work, live in it while doing the renos and then move when you sell it. 

The houses are sold very cheap, however to fix them up, you are usually investing about $30k-$100k to make them livable. 

We found a cheap rental rehab home and and I'm trying to come up the best way to structure the operating agreement.  

It's very important to have a good PM and not go cheap or there's a high chance your rental will get poorly managed and you'll lose money in the long run. 

One posted about buying a cheap quad,  i used her bumbers provided and my maintenance/cap ex to show negative $600/month.  

I was looking for something cheap, but nice at the same time. my real estate agent pulled through and found this property being sold off market.

I do have folks that don't book because of that.That is a good thing as not understanding the distance to get places will create bad blood and cause those 2 and 3 star reviews which no one wants to see.Like @John Underwood, our place isn't cheap so we don't get the folks that destroy places.The bottom line is that you are renting out an expensive asset to strangers for 3-10 days or whatever.

And to make a BRRRR work in the current market, you either need a crew that can do cheap work or a way to source deals.

Really cheap to aquire and almost doubles in value after he uses the bobcat to level it out....

You could get workers for USD $3 per day to cut brush.Local produce is relatively cheap.