If not, you might have to drop a few thousand at IKEA, but if you could keep it rented to tourists, it's quite possible you make more than the mortgage and help to cover the furnishings expense.

Are there suburbs that are attractive? 

Not sure if this will be attractive to a lender now that my savings are much lower and my credit card debt is higher.

This makes them pretty attractive, especially if you're only looking at this as a temporary funding source for acquiring & rehabbing the properties.  

The overall look of the neighberhood you invest in should be attractive and it will help you sell or rent it out.Do not try to do everything yourself.  

We have a great craft beer scene, tons of great parks and free attractions, amazing restaurants, nationally-renowned BBQ, the best zoo in the U.S., affordable housing, lots of investment opportunity, and plenty of Fortune 500 HQs are located here.

Passive is attractive at this point but it would also be nice to make more cash over the next year or two so that we can pay off the finish out we just completed.

But if management keeps screwing employees, you can sure bet their top employees will keep leaving and they will have issues trying to attract the good ones.

My argument is that how is a selling agent able to put anything they want in MLS to attract buyers to a certain property, it seems there has to be some sort of accountability.

You will always get that $ back very quickly and just by having garage you can rent the place for more $ and be more attractable to renters.Let me know if you need some referrals for garage build out.