Key items: installed heating system, updated electrical, moved panel to basement, installed new hardwood throughout, renovated whole kitchen.

Property is a duplex: 207 side is two bed 1 bath, central heating.

If it makes you happy, have pizzas delivered to a crew sitting around on five gallon buckets, choking on sawdust and paint fumes in hundred-degree August heat.

Purchase  price $450kProperty includes:1 - 1050 sq ft 2 bed 2 bath hunters cabin 5 - 10' x 14' ground blinds with electric, heating, bed, mini refrigerator,  and TVs Has 2 fresh water tanks ( a tank is a pond for my yankee friends) LOL both tanks are stocked with bass and catfish Sold all the cedar trees for $4 an acre 238x$4 = $952Sold 80 acres of mesquite trees for $2 an acre 80x$2 = $160Rent 4 hunting blinds @ $2500 per deer season.  4x$2500 = $10,000made a trade to my brother to finish clearing the 80 acres for use of 1 hunting blind.

Check the roof, plumbing, electrical, heating, AC, pool, kitchen upgrades and bathroom upgrades because these tend to be the biggest expenses.

The market has slowed down a little bit for the seasonal summer vacation time (July/August) and will typically heat up again in September.

I own a 3/2 in a transitioning neigborhood in miami.

My home market in Miami Florida is too expensive and cash on cash would not be the best for ROI.

Our tenants SFHs and duplex pay gas/electric so one less bill makes my unit more attractive, I also have less concern of CO issues.The determining factor for me was heat, if the furnace is gas then so is the HW heater.

Someone from Jacksonville - Florida or Miami attending the BiggerPockets' Conference this year?