I also like to go to the "Layers" tile found on the bottom left corner of Google maps. 

The worst part was that they had a baby living in the house with them, after we bombed the place there was over 1000 dead roaches, and I found a live snake behind the hot water heater 4 feet from a mattress that was laying on the floor that someone was sleeping on.  

We've typically either structured them with a new LLC with a solid operating agreement laying out everyone's duties, contributions, percentage of risk, and percentage of profit.

For Rentals, Luxury Vinyl Plank/Tile is the way to go! 

I would start with something more like a light value-add so you can filter out any bad contractors, get a feel for investing OOS, and lay out a solid network as your foundation.

Tile or Vinyl plank flooring in kitchen and bathrooms?

If so you can get a conventional loan after you've been in your home for a year, turn your current home into a rental and then you'll have 2-4 rental properties and a place to lay your head at night. 

If the PM installs faulty plumbing that later requires the entire bathroom to be ripped out including tile, walls etc to re-install correctly, this should fall on the PM's E&O policy.Another example, what if the PM was responsible for installing the railing?

Selling the property amid the pandemic, we realized a significant profit, but the true value lay in the lessons learned and the lives we touched.

A prospective tenant views the apt with me, and I tell them "What you see is what you get, aside from a good cleaning, if you were to move in here, this is how you would get the apartment" .....then they move in and it's "what about this little paint blemish on the wall, what about that 1 cracked floor tile in the kitchen" ......I shut it right down.