Those should not need attention (in a perfect world) for some time. 

The rental demand in the area has been consistent, and duplexes offer the flexibility of house hacking or scaling into multi-family investing over time.With your experience in construction and remodeling, you’re already ahead of the game—fix-and-flips or BRRRR projects in Kansas City could be a perfect fit for you. 

Still not a perfect system though.Also, we ONLY install passage doorknobs and keyed deadbolts.- Logically, there really is no additional security provided with both keyed doorknob & deadbolt, but a deadbolt is more secure than a keyed doorknob.- Since you need a key to lock a deadbolt when you leave the premises, tenant's can't lock their key(s) in the home and then pester us to come let them back in.--- Tenants can still lose their keys outside their home:(

Best of luck 👍🏻 @Justin This is almost perfect advice but you do need 3.5% down with an FHA mortgage.

It's how I've maintained a perfect bond rating and managed my business with the CSLB>I've read many of your posts and am aware that you feel that you can decide when you want a permit or not  I would word it differently.  

Perfectly legal, no hassles.

Fortunately for our 100+ house community, the fire department was already on site battling the brush fire and about a dozen fire fighters frantically extinguished the 4 or 5 roofs burning.This is insignificant compared to what has happened in LA, Palisades, Malibu and Altadena however having lived through Hurricane Andrew and many other major storms even this experience was drastically more terrifying and chaotic. 

Chris summarized it perfectly.

Comments like "this area has nothing else like this" and "it just flows so perfectly from room to room" confirm that following what the house called, not what the area called, worked! 

Finding an investor-friendly agent is key and they should be able to help you with 1-4, I'd say talking about those questions you asked would be the perfect thing to ask any potential agents you interview!