If Tenants are not properly instructed in proper care; if they dump draino in/around the drain; or if the tech does not properly prepare the surface, they will last three years or less, and get ugly much sooner.

You might have a property worth getting the lead free certification since you said it was gutted - the gutting may have removed all surfaces with lead.

Property must be professionally cleaned to include carpets and all hard surface flooring including tile and grout.

On the surface, these numbers may not sound "great".

In 10,000 hours of business these 5 simple traits surface around the successful over and over.

Appreciate any advice on floor surfaces investors/flippers might recommend to facilitate a quick sale.

At the very least maybe consider sliding the stove 1-2 feet and adding a small cabinet or some sort of prep surface to separate them.

I did have some success with out of state landlords that surfaced on the eviction list.

@Ben StevensonMy biggest regret is not turning my earned income to passive income from the deals I've done so far (10).Those 10 deals netted me $354,766.67, and I could've easily went out of state (prob PA, since I've been going down there on short weekend trips for about 15 years), and bought a 6 unit (2 adjoining properties, 3 units each) I looked at last year all cash, which from having run my #s, would've netted little over $40,000/yr after all expenses. 

There is a lot more to it than how it looks on the surface, but many developers create syndicates.