Bats carry many things, as mentioned before, and they leave lots of Dung behind which will need to be professionally cleaned up.I was lucky with my bats.

Your friends probably aren't in the few.If you're going to do a regular listing, interview several agents and say you want a 90 day listing, and you want it sold in 90 days.

A tightening of the market or more stringent processing could wreak havoc on those regularly financing.

I have a family member in the area which saved me since he cleaned, fixed a door knob and changed the passcodes. 

How did you know this property was a good fit for brrrr instead of regular flipping?

@Ryan Slicer,If you are doing a fix & flip on regular and repeated basis - that means that you are in a flipping business.

I'd be down a net $20/mo but keeping a tenant that pays on time and otherwise keeps the unit clean and treats the property as their own.Have you swapped rent for yard maintenance before?

I ran the regular background check to make sure ZIllow's report was on par and it was.

Last I was in there was to help her clean it up and paint before these tenants. 

I have a full time job and provide 95% of our household income so the majority of the real estate work/classwork will have to be done outside of regular business hours (mon-fri 8-4 for me), at least for the time being.