If you have a property manager handling it for you, pass it along to the Tenant at cost of the Workman plus the markup of the property manager, whatever amount that is.Spackle is cheap, but paint can get costly especially if two coats are required. 

I'm not sure of the local job market etc, but maybe someone who wants to save on rent would pay a couple hundred a month to bring in their camper/RV/Travel Trailer to stay in the area for cheap...that's about it I think.  

And to go for appreciation if you're going to look out of state, meaning don't buy cheap Class C properties OOS for the "cash flow on paper".

You might want to think about pulling up the carpet and taking a look. (2) Maybe the water delivery piping under the floor, hot or cold, has developed a pinhole leak and is spraying onto the subfloor from below. 

You can buy duplexes relatively cheap here in Columbus, so they will cash flow great.

The appraisal fee sounded high but I trusted the broker when he told me it was considered cheap as costs had gone up.

It is tough to buy the homes cheap enough to where you can then rehab them and sell them at a profit. 

Here in AZ, you can generally piece together those subcontractors at pretty cheap rates, so unless you need an acutal GC for permits being pulled, etc...

When fuel prices rose, it wrecked the economy --hence the strong correlation between cheap fuel and dollar value. 

But, those were SFHs & cheap ones at that.