You are in the perfect place to learn from other like-minded investors. 

If you are early in the project, you can often scale down other parts of the renovation to cover the cost, i.e. that terrazzo tile that would have been perfect is no longer in the budget.  

Part of my reason for getting into REI is so I can live the wanderer lifestyle while I'm still young enough to do it and enjoy the activities that we love; we have a Northern Lite truck camper and while it's a bit too small for my husband and I, our 2 dogs and cat, it's perfect for traveling up to a couple weeks at a time, which is what we both want to do.Thanks again to everyone for the great advice and warm welcome.

I've yet to see the perfect sewer line, even on new construction.

Easy answer is no CRM is perfect @Brandon Spaulding.   

Forget about being perfect, because let's be real, perfection is overrated.

This is the perfect place to learn about real estate investing. 

We have perfect feedback and Premier Host, and allow Instant book, but do not have a liberal cancellation policy and have some rules in place (4 day minimums, for example) and are not fighting the cheapo battle, and we tend to get somewhat buried in the search rankings.One of the things that really burns my *** about VRBO is that they allow the property owner to self select the type of property that it is rather than forcing it into where it belongs.

There will be no perfect market at a perfect time, EVER.

I got a feeling that life as a Private-$ Investor may be a great place to start, and these properties lend a perfect means to testing that out, solving 2 issues in 1 action, because you can JV your way out of the operational side of things AND retain that long term financial upside.