You might not personally care to do it, perhaps because you enjoy REI (or perhaps because you're afraid of the answer), but it's not appropriate to attack people for feeling differently.The truth is, whether the time required to improve returns is worthwhile depends on the person and stage of life.

If you find a place with 60s wallpaper, look at it as an opportunity to add value through paint.Take a friend with you who isn't afraid to tell you if you are wrong. 

I was afraid all of these features I was hearing about HAD to be used, which I felt might be intimidating since we're expecting an older crowd at certain times of the year.

I am not afraid of the work and I have a good mentor with me, only problem is my mentor is exclusively experienced in California investing.

But don’t be afraid to act on the right one.

But at the same time my ultimate goal is to have Rentles and the market has went up so much in our area that I’m afraid we will end up really over spending and taking even longer to pay off the new property to reach our max profit, We have $40k saved up and are planning to get out of North Dakota after 8 years and go home and my plan is to do the (small repairs) to the properties and put them on the market and take the money to start flipping foreclosed houses (still need to do a lot more research on that as well before we commit) sorry for such a long story but I’m just looking to see if anybody has any suggestions or experience with any of the Situations I’m in, thanks!

Overly cautious is my middle name LOL  I was so afraid to do it, but I said if not then when? 

The main reason however is usually because they are afraid of tenants and should probably be hiring a PM to manage for them. 

Going the BRRRR route, the ROI wont be much starting off and I fear that the $60k I have for making this thing go will run out faster, although the equity potential long run may be better.I have done some work on my own home and am pleased with the results and I am not afraid to do more, but I also dont want it to take forever.   

I'm only about 3 months into really learning about REI, so please don't be afraid to call this out if it's a horrible plan!