I didn't start out planning to become a landlord, it was just convenient due to a personal medical situation.After everything cleared up I formulated a plan to jump in to the industry so that I could retire early.

Texas is a non-disclosure state so sales prices are not published

On the W/D and dings -- I'm not sure if you expect your PM to oversee move-ins and move-outs for each tenant to minimize dings, but the recourse there is the tenant's deposit, so this sounds like a non-issue and you got advice on how to decrease some turnover time and potential cost.On the rehab you're essentially asking for a workmanship guarantee.

Currently in the medical field which gives me a nice earning but clearly not the end all be all of my financial plan.

Toss in a compromise of giving the board a copy of a non renew notice now, probably a good idea to have a letter or in person discussion from tenants backing up your claim...

The conservative approach is not to proceed since you already put down non retirement account funds.

I am investing in non-community property states. 

In the 1980s I rented (not owned) a house in Seattle and quite successfully sublet a room (with the landlord's permission) to medical school graduates (MDs) who were doing their externships with the University of Washington Medical School.

Can this be done in non-community property state? 

@Steve Vaughan  I think the reason they do is for some reason they believe what they hear that the way to buy rental real estate when you have no money.. is to wholesale first get some money then buy rentals.when in fact wholesaling or buying and selling deals quickly in any volume takes a lot of skill.. significant marketing capital.. and most of the time they are breaking the real estate laws.And you have all sorts of HOW TO trainers selling their boot camps and of course they lead with you too can get rich with NON of your own money..theoreticaly that's true.. but not really reality in the real world..not to mention some areas simply do not have enough distressed real estate to make it viable at all.other areas like urban cores and cities that have seen hard times much easier to at least snag low value assets no one wants.. much of this is done is rough areas.Granted there are always hoarder houses and other fixer types in the nicer areas but its uber competitive for them.. and generally there is not enough profit in them to feed all the mouths.the wholesaler the buyer the buyer having to use hard money the contractor sales cost etc.. that in my mind is why you see so many post about HEY wholesalers don't know what they are doing..