My uncle has a property that has one tenant upstairs already paying $700 a month and could rent the downstairs after some painting and light renovations for another $750.  

I am currently rehabbing the home, refinishing flooring, paint, and making the basement a rec room.

Some times you are paying 3x for someone's nephew to clean the snow and 5x for someones brother to paint.5.

Rich Ng it's some sort of complicated shower fixture.

Is the plumbing old or the house full of lead paint.

Taxes, Insurances, Vacancy allowance, Repair allowance(touching up paint, grass seed...) 

A building two blocks from my four plex in Crystal, has a newly painted exterior, decent looking apartments the same size, but with worse looking vinyl windows, no garage, and rents at least $100.00 per unit below mine.  

(Paint, vacuum, deep clean, etc)I have two units in San Jose, possibly a third in a nearby city, that just all happen to vacate at around the same time that need a bit of touch up.

I funded my own first deal back in '97 and once my family saw that I was serious and saw the project, they were over there helping me clean, paint and do whatever they had the ability to do.

Try working under another investor for a while, and learn everything from how to analyze a deal to how to patch and paint drywall.