If you really are planning a small community, I would first try to determine if there is an outside lender or lenders who might make the loans to your buyers, or if your customer credit quality is too low, look at a couple of legal joint venture relationships you might explore.

I use good quality faucets and toilets.

I also like the idea of having someone onsite because my impression is they have more interest in picking quality tenants.

I cannot speak to the quality of anything or anyone referenced herein, but it's a place to start.

Tons of bad weather, high insurance costs, high maintenance, tenant quality kinda sucks compared to midwest.Not a fan of texas right now.  

If those cabinets have good boxes (i.e. plywood) and you want to save costs, you could re-face them (or maybe even repaint).Alternatively, if you replace the cabinets, I would look for ones with good quality boxes that you could reface down the road.  

Good quality work for a great price.

With trying to rent over the winter when tenant quality is worse, I caught about half applicants lying on their applications, ridiculous. 

If there is really high cash flow day 1 at market price, that to me is a red flag, not a green light, since it likely means I'm taking on extra risk from the quality of tenants and the neighborhood.

What I learned from it is that I can't trust rehab qualities by contractors without seeing it all in person.