For the wet areas like bathrooms and laundry, use tile.As for counter tops, it depends on your area and the market.

Like Jess, I would consider small multi-family although I thought I would get my feet wet with a single family first.  

But I'm just starting to get my feet wet so we'll see how it goes.

I am from the Central Valley area of California (Stockton, Modesto, Merced, etc) and getting my feet wet in real estate.

.#2 Partner with Someone that Has Construction ExperienceTo get your feet wet, you could partner with another house flipper, contractor or construction professional that could help with Estimating Costs.

Therefore, as long as I can find a deal that cash flows in the short term, I figure that getting my feet wet is better done sooner rather than later.

It allows me to get my feet wet in investing, learn, make mistakes with less money on the line.

Maybe you could buy them a shop wet vac and they would agree to use it?

Ok so I'm just getting my feet wet in investing...

we are close to a couple from florida self managing in winter park.most of these towns are year round places now outside the months of say late april/may (wet season) and october / early nov.