Frankly, if I can find good ones then anyone can.Our place is a long way from town and finding someone to drive 2 hours round trip ain't easy. 

@Lexi Teifke Your rental house in Round Rock.

hahaI am not experienced nor do I have a contractor I can trust yet to give the property a once over for any potential big ticket items.

You can get away with putting 10% down and having 100% of the renovations financed since there is a bigger pool of investors willing to buy the note and funding is much more available.

It was built in the 1920 and is over 100 years old, meaning that a lot of big-ticket components are past their design life.

one of the partners that we went in on the deal with owned two other car washes nearby that are self-service wash style you mentioned and although our full service wash had a much higher average ticket value and overall more revenue, his other two washes averaged less than 1% in labor cost where our full service was would be between 20%-30% on any given day. we ran a detail crew of around 5 people and then had around 10 or so people on hand to handle the car wash traffic. we tried to get away with not hand drying the vehicles after they exited the wash but the previous owner had made that a staple of the business so when we stopped doing it people got frustrated and we decided to keep that a part of the process. in doing so that means you have to pay labor tax!

Looking to buy a small condo/house/townhouse for a summer get away for parts of Jun/Jul/Aug.

If the paint is flat, you could get away with spraying drywall without backrolling, but I still recommend backrolling.  

STR in those areas do well year round because of fall colors and ski resorts and snow mobiling if they are on a lake, but on the flip side you are paying significant more because they serve dual purpose.  

By the time you’re paying those inflated rates you should already have 10 golden ticket loans.