I'm in the same boat - looking to take all of my property management in-house.

For example, if I want to buy a  house today from someone for $1,000,000. 

Those two items added $6850 that included labor costs to our renovation costs.

You can also do the renovations yourself. 

I want guaranteed monthly rents because when I purchase my main focus is cash flow, then equity in the form of added value (renovations, adding extra bedroom, etc).

One of them is a 2 story house right on the beach - and they always say summer is *surprisingly* slower for them.

After a bunch of years, start to sell it off if you want to live off of the houses.

(on things like flooring, cabinets, remodels, siding etc) I want to hear thoughts on going as cheap as possible, making the house look "high end" (possibly attracting higher end renters and charging more) or somewhere in the middle?

Payment is $450 cheaper ($4400 PITI v $3990 PITI).This is a house hack where the tenant is paying $2100 in Y1 with rent scheduled to increase to $2200.This HH is on a VA loan and I’d like to refi into a conventional loan eventually to reuse my benefits.

I bought a house to flip and just listed it to sell.