Wait until you hit 12 months at your current house then buy another house for you to move into at 3%-5% down and turn the 1st house into a pure rental property.

To motivate tenants to move, I suspect I would need to offer 5-10k in this case (that’s pure speculation since I never done so).

I would feel way more comfortable with my contractor just focusing purely on getting the houses done

Our wall paint color is pure white and it's not easy to clean, and I worry that another coat of white paint isn't going to help or solve the underlying issue.

Some things like Inspection and insurance and gap lender payments are pure guesses as I've never done any of those things so not sure of the cost yet. $4,656 profit just doesn't seem like a good ROI when you think of all the risks or a problem that requires more $$$ or I may have forgot about something in the initial equation.  

But as a pure rental prospective, you paid too much.

Purely anecdotal, but I’m in a lot of GA/NC rental groups on Facebook, and I’ve seen a few report slow bookings in the ski are regions of NC.

It's 18k out of pocket (points and closing cost) and we already own the property for this is purely rehab financing.

The rest invest for capital gains only, which is pure speculation.Mind you, my best friend in Australia used to do cosmetic flips and made a lot of money with it but you need to be in the ground.

I got into this by a pure stroke of chance and I am absolutely enthralled with it.