I put 10% down on my condo and did the FHA 203(k) loan for my house where we did an extensive remodel, addition, and converted the garage into the ADU.Under $600K is getting to be pretty impossible in the valley without making sacrifices on location (such as busy streets, etc). 

I also have a construction background, so I will be able to pretty much handle the rehabs myself (I've done the entire addition/remodel on my house) unti I'm able (financially) to just hire everything out.

You finished a kitchen remodel, you placed your first tenant, you got your first loan, you bought your first property. 

I've got limited experience with investing through a VA loan triplex that I house hack in Washington (and closed on in January), and don't yet have experience with running a remodel.

Missing doors, missing toilets, animal and human feces on walls and floors, piles of diapers, drugs, guns, police, police, police etc.

Since we do it that way, it's about the same money to farm out to a property manager and then none of us have to take a call at 3AM because the toilet is flooding the basement while we're on vacation.

It was built in the 90's (last remodel) and has foundation issues (reason for sitting empty so long).

No leaky faucets or toilets, no broken anything, no scuffed up paint, no nothing.

I have never run into this case myself because all the rehabs and remodels I have ever done have always taken from 6 months to over one year.

I'm hoping to repeat this process and acquire many more. the tricky thing is that the house used to be a legal 3 family, and the current owner remodeled it into 2 family (basement and 1st fl are duplex).