All makes sense if you have a professional license... you have to put in the work to maintain in.

The best way in reality - if you are willing to put in the time to educate yourself both on Excel and finance - is to build the model yourself.

If I felt the need to hide it more for a showing, I guess I would get a tall palm plant to put in front of it.

I put in a new roof, redid the floors, painted, did yard work, window treatments, removed asbestos in the garage.I had the place reappraised it was now worth 335k. 

I was debating whether or not to go back into real estate, because I did not want get distracted from being an investor.

You put in your rehab costs and then let's say you were able to list it on April 7, 2016.

You can put in Offers for ANY property, so long as you know your Offered price will lead you to the success that you desire. 

If it is work being done to the rental unit prior to it being put in service (ie. before you rent it for the first time) or it is a capital improvement (i.e. new front steps), then it must be capitalized and added to the cost base of the property.All questions to ask of your accountant. 

That produces a lot more cash flow if you're willing to put in some learning and effort.

But...My suggestion is: if you want to put effort into rehabbing homes for flipping, you should put in a little extra effort and find those same homes for $50-70k (instead of $79k) YOURSELF!