If you unit floods,  or dog pee is in there,  you pull it up,  wash it,  clean and dry the subfloor (or replace if ruined),  put the vinyl right back down.  

Hey All, I have a one bedroom 16-plex that has been having trouble getting tenants and keeping occupancy for the past year, one of the feedbacks we mostly get is that even though the apartments are nice they want a washing and drying machine. 

I pivoted to medium term rentals last year when Air BNB bookings dried up.

Inventory has been bone dry since the pandemic just about all over the county.

So you could keep half of your downpayment dry for the second one.Not being able to buy a second one is called opportunity cost.

And if the plan fails and the money dries up, she can disappear just as easily as anyone else.This type of scenario is discussed often in the Short-Term rental forum.

My local opportunities are drying up on b&h SFR and the quality of MFR tenants is risky.

Once the Kilz is fully dried, you can paint over it with a latex interior paint without any trouble. 

Either switch up your strategy for turning up deals, or park your capital somewhere else and keep your powder dry.

He's also not going to be handing out freebies, either - he has a process and he expects payment for it, pretty much cut and dry.