For my area it isn't worth going the extra mile or spending extra money for something big and luxurious.

I currently work with investors looking to build their portfolio with single-family, long-term rentals while managing for them on the back end, making is hands-free for the investor to still work their W-2 job and live their everyday lives and spend it with family, hobbies, etc. 

I took the next 5 months to tackle everything myself spending approximately 17k in supplies and tools + paying a plumber and roofer 4k total to fix those issues.

GC in my area cost 10% of the total and I would say that is worth it for what they provide, but if you have the knowledge and willingness to be on the phone with subs (and spend a lot of time on site) you could save that by DIYing it.

My regret is not buying one in Hawaii or somewhere else where my family could spend some vacation time.

And you use a cleaning lady who spends 5 hours to reset the property for the next guest.

On average, you will spend 10% of your income on maintenance per year.

I think the reason that Grocapitus or Neal Bawa were not getting much response either speaks to their level of participation in BP (Neal obviously doesn't spend much time here), or the fact that unhappy LPs were shy, or happy LPs were shy, or BP does a poor job of really getting posts noticed.

The reason I asked about the amount is I see people always searching for the "perfect note" when they had 100 opportunities pass right by and spend thousands to buy 5 loans a year which they could have done little work and still found similar loansWe buy non performing to get them reperforming and we also have some shorter term RTL's (performing) for cash flow purposes.

If anyone spends any time in Europe, barely any jurisdiction impose these limitations on homeowners/builders yet people live in much smaller spaces... and very happily.