There WILL be stress as you search for that initial property to buy at a good price, and as you learn how to deal with tenants, get phone calls for a leaky toilet while you're having supper with the family, or that crazy cat lady with pee all over the carpet. 

I'm also looking for a general labor crew: someone to install toilets, lay laminate flooring, screw in odds and ends, and build a custom kitchen island.

NONE of this makes your rental unit uninhabitable.Frankly, I hate it when tenants view a legal contract such as a lease as nothing more than toilet paper.Gail

They don't take care of themselves and when the toilet plugs up or the AC breaks or the roof leaks the PM will not be out there when the tenant starts screaming at you over the phone that they will not pay the rent until you get there at midnight on Sunday to fix the problem.

You can use hot water or a toilet plunger to move the product through your drain lines.https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Then offer, if they have any other needs in their business, that you're really hungry to get involved and to learn the business, so if they needed help answering phones, cleaning toilets or whatever, that you'd love an opportunity to work with them and help out. 7.

The board of health strictly came up with like 20 items for you to address like stain wall, old toilet seat, .... etc.

In fact there is a guy running for President who made 9 billion Dollars doing real estate  Unlike the stock market where value is determined by what the herd will pay, even if the company is going down the toilet, real estate has intrinsic value.  

Tenants want a landlord that will get a broken toilet fixed quickly.

"Are you at all interested in changing this house into a 'true mail box money' investment where you DONT have to deal with TENANTS AND TOILETS?"