Consider off-market sales to avoid public listings and minimize tenant disruption, using discreet marketing or a wholesale strategy.

We agreed on seller financing terms, and I acquired a cash-flowing property with minimal out-of-pocket expenses.

You need to understand that given your situation the asset and operational impact must be absolute minimal, lowest risk exposure possible.

I am not telling you to do one thing or another  Also, i believe that FHA will not allow renovations to a home unless it’s already livable with minimal to no repairs visually needed but go check.

If there were any, they were minimal, meaning not much maintenance was needed.

Demand for February/March move-ins should see a notable uptick sometime in January, but you'll for sure see your strongest rental demand in late spring/summer.Your most recent post mentioned that you were going to look for someone for a 6-month lease - I think this is a great way to approach it to minimize vacancy loss while biding your time until we get into the higher demand summer months.Getting creative with your lease term and credits/concessions could also be a good way to solve a few potential problems in one shot. 

We (the buyers) notified our agent that the property must also be move-in-ready.We received images of the interior and exterior which showed the property in move-in ready condition/what appeared to be minimal to no deferred maintenance issues, the listing said "property inmove-in condition/turn-key".

I have minimal plumbing experience and thought it would cost me way more than what the actual bill was.

Since I am married and have school age kids, I place a real premium on minimizing my management time. 

I mean this stuff happens in rental houses that are nice and newer or new. you either keep them in great shape which cost money or you buy rentals that you simply do minimal work on as the tenants paying 700 or 800 month have a very different expectation than a tenant paying 1700 a month.