A good investment team will minimize your risk and save you time and money.

You have to be purposeful and design every aspect of your rental business to run with minimal input from you as the Landlord, so if something happens to you it can be easily maintained by your spouse, kids, or home office. 

FHA with minimal downpayment.

Depends on where you stand with the seller If you are trying to keep it secret that you are wholesaling than I would minimize the amount of people walking and appointments as much as possible. 

So if you had minimal time but were ready to invest, what would make the most sense?

The way to crush anxiety is to leave minimal space for uncertainty.

HmmmThis outside of the box thinking is very interesting to me, because if you can essentially assemble the team (especially with VA’s) to combine strengths and make quick massive progress initially instead of just putting together what you can yourself with minimal assistance and pivoting as you go, it sounds like you have potential to run at a much more accelerated rate.

Currently in most areas with longer days on market and prices dropping, you 100% SHOULD NOT assume your future appraiser will come in that high, and in the even they come in lower, if you don't have much equity left in the deal that will kill your BRRR Strategy.I personally use PML, but you can use HDML, then be ready to do a Rate and Term Refinance VS a cash out refi leaving minimal to none of your cash in the deal and then go to the next one. 

Plus it integrates with your calendar so the communication between you and your cleaner is minimal as they just know when they need to get in and clean. 

I feel that the risk is minimal where the duplex is specifically located.