In the end, due to the "great news" they found, they ended up not installing an overhead sewer line or digging out front to attach the downspouts to the mainline in front of our house, but instead, redirected some of the existing piping and doing an edited version of the proposed plan that more heavily used the intact mainline under the house.The end result has seemed to be a resolution to the problem (so the ultimate purpose of the work was achieved), but with what I would estimate to be about 50-70% of the total proposed work.

Hey y'all,Total newbie here.

This tech is also totally VR ready. 

I think you totally missed the part where I said he's NOT LIVING THERE. 

To be totally honest, the time to buy there was in 2011-2012.

Experiment budget is currently set at around $50-80K total up-front cash outlay (i.e., combined pool for downpayment, rehab, professional services, etc.).On that note, I'd assumed I would use leverage and have estimated 25% down, but I'm open to interesting cash plays.I 100% insist on using property management, and all of my planning includes that cost.Ideally I'd like to hit ~8+% cash-on-cash return after all is said and done (taxes, payments, repairs, insurance, PM fees, capex, professional services, estimated cost of vacancy and turnover, etc.).

I am currently trying to obtain all the monthly costs to come up with a total monthly cost, I have more most of them.

My total rents are $2400/month.

Totally missed that it was a duplex originally, but if it's duplex don't you have more expenses that you as a landlord need to pay for the common areas (e.g. mowing, heat/utilities in common area, etc.)?

I recently purchased two investment properties, both with 20% down payments (totaling around $100k) which used up essentially all of my available funds.