Interested to hear what everyone would accept as far as cap rate/ROI for a duplex where some renovations ($25k worth) are needed and then renting the place out as a long term investment.  Thanks  

If you do Airbnb, you can generate moderate revenue during the Winter months.

Now,   there are a couple re-sales currently available among this stock competing with a few brand new units all of which have been for sale with weekly opens for at least a few weeks.More broadly,  definitely seeing more open houses and more SFR / townhouse / condo stuff available in south end of seattle,  but prices haven't really moderated yet.   

Do you think I could get another $4k in an slowly/moderately/quickly rising market?"

I live in St Louis and we have a really large club and several moderately sized clubs as well. 

Most of this is going to occur in more moderately priced markets.Forget about what houses are going for in upstate NY, or NC or Timbuktu.

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In a nutshell, is it worth taking a risk with moderate construction skills to DIY?

I have enough money to put down on a moderately priced property, say up to $200,000.

If you have 4 years of tax returns I would expect them to paint a moderately good picture of what's going on.