Consider a smaller starter home or condo and then work on your income to upgrade into a home. 

Adding full kitchens, debugging the apartment, upgrading tenants as they moved out.

Adding full kitchens, debugging the apartment, upgrading tenants as they moved out.

And now she's met with an A/C company to get a quote on upgrading the A/C units.

nothing pointed at you personally but there has been build to rent projects were investors had to put up 50k non refundable and never got their house built.. so I can see putting it in escrow and releasing it upon closing for sure.. thats what i personally do with my new builds although since we average 25 to 75k of upgrades per house buyers have to stroke non refundable checks directly to us for those items.

Your upgrades look very attractive.For rental though, I would have not spent a nickel changing either of those kitchens.

First time posting and getting into the investment scene, I currently have a single family home that was my previous primary, and looking into purchasing my 1st true investment property, trying to find some advice on the financial aspect of the purchase, here's my scenario;Currently going through pre-approval with the builder and I do have liquid assets enough to cover the downpayment for the property (40k) but I do have a car note (41k, 800 monthly, extra 500 to principal monthly) and a Patio upgrade (25k no interest till March 2025).

If you scale in the future, you can upgrade, but now you just need something that works and generates reports and takes auto payments.

@ELI MER in my crm quest to upgrade from podio, I came across Zoho Bigin.

There are variations in design, features, upgrades and so on.