Brushing teeth?

The goal is to cut your teeth and save some money.Paint you can DIY.

You and your neighbors, armed to the teeth, patrolling your own neighborhood, would be a far greater deterrent to crime in your neighborhood than a random police car, driving down your street once every 24 or 48 hours.

A sensitivity analysis does help a lot here and there are some key variables that dominate many models; like rents, vacancies, etc.

If you're just starting out and you have some skills and a LOT of time on your hands, but not a lot of cash, the "sweat equity" approach is a great way to cut your teeth and learn a lot along the way.

As easy as this sounds, it's not simple and usually like pulling teeth.

Cut my teeth in HVAC design and some light plumbing design.

These types of programs are better suited for investments that are more time sensitive or transaction intensive in nature such as ownership of property, tax liens and the like - or even just a portfolio with multiple static assets. 

Even at B class (Rent $1400-1600) income and background checks rule.I require 4 rents income with low FICO, and only 3 - with decent score.Eviction is much more sensitive subject than credit, even if it happen 5-7 years ago.

If you give them the two you termination make sure your terminate fee has some teeth.