Anything that has a striking visual impact is going to help not only with your appraisal, but also marketing your property, whether to rent or sell.

You can take time off, but if your mind is elsewhere because you feel like you have a purpose, trying to reach milestones to get closer to the life you've visualized, taking time off only creates dissonance because you're putting that vision on hold. 

Keep momentum by taking daily action towards reaching your visualization of making it.

Throughout this thread, I will share pics of the newly rehabbed unit to give some visual context. 

He told me it would cost around $200 or so to get the visual.

While conducting a visual inspection of the building, I noticed that the building seems to be leeching electricity from my mother-in-laws main electrical line.

It's just trying to work out every little detail so I can visualize everything happening before it actually does.

I dug up this old BP blog post that makes mapping these easier If you wanted to get a good visual of your local hot spots.http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2009/11/13/scout-investor-hotspots-google-earth-multiplottr/

., can be an inexpensive, easy visual improvement for a dated home, even if you use the simplest, cheapest ones and buy in bulk.There are a few topics on here to search for about hardening your rentals -- a very good read before you begin.

Even later to this thread - I really liked it to visualize what process and organization to plan for