If I could re-frame, and put myself in your shoes, I would look for a money partner to help secure rehab properties. 

To get to where we are financially, we hadn’t outsourced much because we didn’t want to spend the money.

hard money How did you add value to the deal?

@Shaylynn O'LearyI think I may have posted this in response to you in another thread a while back, but here goes again.If you pick a random "low cost" market like the ones you named, don't know anyone there, don't set up a network, buy random properties, and turn them over to people you've never met to manage, you will most likely lose money. 

That’s incredibly frustrating, especially after investing so much time and money.

They have to prove to any relatives and "legally" interested parties, (court, relative, creditors, etc) that all money was collected and all debts were paid.  

If you have a solid team and some money set aside it's doable

Other analysis you can do is analyzing your cash flow, passive appreciation and principal recapture to see the total picture on your ROI.Once you do the analysis, you may find putting money into maintenance may or may not be worth holding the property.

That said, if you are working for a company that does not allow real estate in their 401(k) setup (most dont allow) then I can see where you might look at where is best to put my hard earned dollars. 

For the second property, I would expect to have to put money into it in some fashion.