It allows for creativity and enjoying the fruits of your labor.

I’m looking forward to making some fruitful connections with fellow BP members.  

Enjoy the fruits of your labor today, exit as the market is high and demand is high, reinvent your strategy, turnkey as a lifestyle is something you will soon be able to capture, seems that you may be leaning in this direction fairly strong.You need to calculate your risk and rewards, you time saved, your ability to maximize your current exposure and define if the risk model is greater or lesser.

Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

if you have all your cash (eggs) in one basket you are taking on a massive amount of risk (and reward).  

I am thinking about providing new tenants with a welcome basket of basic cleaning supplies and household items like: paper towels, toilet paper, toilet brush, plunger, dish soap, and all purpose cleaner.    

After a year's worth of work, we are currently coasting and enjoying the fruits of our labor. 

Keep it up and eventually you will see the fruits of your labor, but you have to be persistent and consistent!

It requires a whole basket of skills and you have to be good at all of them including knowing your market really well, marketing skills (and significant funds), negotiation skills, understanding investment strategies and what makes an attractive deal, estimating rehab and construction expenses, estimating after repair values accurately and networking - to name a few.

Be it yellow letters, custom postcards, etc. it seems that this tactic of REI marketing is alive and fruitful here in CO.