If the plumbing needs a repair, I don't delay the repair, I don't take short cuts, I do it right, so the tenant is not inconvenienced.

I am interested to see if others have any suggestions for "short cuts" but so far, I haven't found any :)  Good luck!

It's best to be in compliance with everything instead of praying you don't get caught taking a shortcut and hoping nobody notices.

I hate to go into some of these rehabs and find so many obvious problems where they've taken short cuts.

Shortcuts cost.  

If it doesn't, you're not ready ... if it does, then REI is also just managing income & expenses, just on a bigger scale and with leverage.Don't focus on how long it will take, like there is a magic time number ... focus on the learning and growing process and slowly, surely, and systematically building your knowledge and skills without trying to shortcut around those critical first steps.

Where people get themselves into trouble is by taking short cuts.

You will not get a good size of business credit without any personal guarentee.If you don't want to use your credit, your best shortcut is to find someone with good credit as partner, establish your business credit with good DUNS number 80+ (Just call Dun and Bradstreet for that) then apply for your line.

And I wasn't looking for any short cuts or substitutions, just other options to this area of legwork.

Shortcuts cause pain and can cost thousands.