They would cost me roughly 10k to get installed, but these can be eye sores and also can have reliability issues.

I'm literally dipping my toes in the water by writing this post. 

If your house is beautifully done on the exterior, that driveway patch job will stick out like a sore thumb and will be a turn off for most buyers. 

You may be more comfortable buying a property and renting it out yourself at first, which absolutely a fine way to dip your toe into REI. 

If you're bored with SFR then why not dip your toes into MFH and other commercial spaces?

@Brian Egr; seems to be plenty of SFR in the area but im hoping to buy a multi family so i can live in the other half and have toe mortgage paid for when i alm living there and then get some cash flow when i eventually decide to move, additionally it will allow me to learn to be a land lord. then i hope to expand to other SFR or multi families. 

Wasn't trying to step on toes here, just trying to spread some help and support.

Purchase price: $230,000 Cash invested: $10,000 My first investment property I am house hacking in order to get my toes wet in REI.

Refi out the $50k, use it again, keep repeating this until your arm gets sore.  

My major complaint is the fact that as an interesting post is developing, complete with a lot of great information, a mod decides to delete the entire post thus depriving those following it a lot of great back & forth information.The recent post regarding 1099's deadlines per se is one sorely missed example.In the consideration of those of us who do appreciate specific information it maybe more productive (of the mod), to specifically delete the offending entry or inappropriate information.If 'Mod forbid' it absolutely has to be deleted at least give those of us 'following the topic' a curtesy heads up so we can copy/paste the informative feedback.