While owning assets with less management intensive tenants to bootThe data is clear, most of the profit comes from appreciation.

Agreed Mikhail...........Flipping can be a great strategy....but I have known a lot of flippers that wished they had done a whole lot more Buy and Hold with those flips....Buy and hold is much less labor intensive.

And if they intend to paint a more intense color at some point, they can stand to live in the place until they get around to doing it.But gray is the new avocado green. 

If that stove started moving I was going to know about it immediately.Damn, that is intense.

This is a fact intensive situation and contract provision specific question that you are throwing out to the peanut gallery. 

Intense Frugality, a life saving expense account & maxed out credit cards were the norm. 

Then, ask questions and listen intensely.

It is a little online banking intensive but you control everything. 

A more intense home renovation would give us more options to customize but meanwhile raising the cost.

They are mainly a hedge against inflation as they typically will not cash flow well, they should be less management intensive and therefore take less time, but if you are investing for cash flow, or even strong appreciation there are much better paths.