We also have a screening requirement to do a video interview with any applicant having a FICO score under 620 - the whole point is to have them show us their kitchen, bathroom and one other room.

Updated kitchen, bath, floor, appliances, paint, backyard.

My brother remodeled the kitchen What was the outcome?

Kitchen, baths, roof windows, 

For example you could get a 4-br 2-ba SFH and carve out 2 of the bedrooms and one bath to become a 1-br 1-ba + kitchen/living room JADU, and then also convert a 2-car garage into a 2-br 1-ba.

Also, shiny object syndrome I understand and have a hard time with that as well LOL, but find what is reasonable and actually attainable, those things will come with time, real estate investing is a marathon, not a sprint.

So I sold the business, kept the real estate, and have been full time real estate the last 25 years. 

We turned a SFH into an up/down duplex by framing in a locked door at bottom of stairs and adding a kitchen to the lower unit.

Purchase price: $10,000 Cash invested: $32,000This was originally a two bedroom house upstairs with kitchen dining room living room and a bathroom downstairs with like a mud room for say.

I guess I am just having a hard time really trying to decide on a market.