I'm just concerned about eating through too much capital on the down payments and then slowing our growth potential.

So, help me understand why someone who has never bought or sold a home before would think that it’s better to navigate this process on their own than listing it with a real estate agent who eats, breaths and sleeps real estate....?

.," do you mean estimating them as a % of rent or just merely not including them in the analysis and eat-up the cost, ultimately subtracting them from your net income?  

So your COC ROI looks good but you are missing several costs that ultimately will eat-up your current calculated cash flow and put the property in negative cash flow. 

You're more likely to be hit with a vacancy that will eat up any possible profit.

What you're asking for sounds a lot like you want someone to take raw meat & potatoes & serve them to you seasoned & ready to eat, but not cook it.

It's only a stepping stone to break free.While you are slaving, eat ramen, roommate up or live in trailer, avoid Starbucks and tuck every dollar you can squeeze out into a bank account. need 20% down and money for materials. so for 80K home (trashed), you will want 35K banked to get started, just a rough idea.Get a pro account on this site so you can access the PRO only blogs and avoid all the goofy stuff that can confuse you sometimes.Take NO advice from salesmen such as realtors/brokers.

Eat the $75 and call it educational expense.

Time to hang with the fam and eat way too much!

You may need to purchase this one and another to eat up all the investment portion of your sale.