Homes like you are describing are a bit of a lifestyle for awhile (not a bad thing as long as you know that is what you are doing for the weekends and with your free money).   

Lied to the wife about visitors and got her to spend a weekend removing all the kitchen cabinets, sanded and resealed all of them (probably my best trick since we married).

I am thinking rent Mon- Fri leaving the weekend free for the realtor to show the house.

So, you may need to work nights & weekends to get jobs done quickly so the transaction closes on time:(Find a decent middle ground JUST SO YOU CAN MAKE CONNECTIONS:)Tell every agent after you finish a job that you're looking for fixer-uppers!!!

The only clientele I can see is the middle class Panamanians who will only go their for the weekend or for their holidays.

I househacked in Denver renting out my walk-out basement and it was a better financial decision than to have a long term rental.As for timing, if you were going to rent for a year while you look for a property anyway, I'd keep living at parent's house and look at property aggressively during weekends or weekdays after work.

But I am going to spray this weekend. 

Apparently, Latchel outsources it's customer service over the weekend and they have no idea who RentRedi is and said that since I do not have an account directly with Latchel, they cannot help me.

Indeed, it's already a popular weekend hangout for Athenians and it'd be an easy daily commute for those living close to the metro and working in the city.

I'm looking through the spreadsheet and I think it's worth mentioning that it's possible to spend a lot less for certain material items as well as labor in many cases depending on how frugal you want to beinterior door with hardware: $5-10 used, $30-50 newwindow: $10-50 used, $100-200 newlight fixtures: $1-10 used, 6 pack flushmount at lowes for $44fan fixture: $24-60 new water heater: $250 newtoilet: $50-90 newsink: $40-200 new faucet: $10-30 newtile: 0.49-2/sqft newappliance: $20-200 each appliance usedmy last rehab was:60 elec permit cost + 300 elec repair (tenant destroyed meter box causing house to be condemned)1600 material + 1500 labor flooring for 1400 sqft500 material + 600 labor spray paint whole house semigloss and patch some large holes$30 for 4 interior doors which I put in$10 mirror for bathroom$100 paint porch, stairs, and stair rail brown$50 fridge, $10 burner plates for stoveI also spent at least a few hundred with help on cleaning and taking out the trash and some other expenses here and there which altogether added up to about 5 thousand.I spent maybe 30 hours over there in total on the weekends.