I'd also think about long term-do you want to share your property with tenants and how will it affect resale value down the road? 

So by spending $42k I collected an additional $75k over 5 years, and then sold the furniture through a consignment store collecting $8k as my share.  

What have you learned that you can share?   

I appreciate any advice or suggestions you can share.

Happy to share what I've been investing in and the returns if you're interested in. 

Happy to share insights and compare notes!

Thank you again, Joel, for sharing such helpful information!

I would like to share here and get some opinions. 

In my area, the inspectors are massively overloaded and often skip through a nice house quickly while telling me the last house they were in set them back 2 hours because there were so many violations.

you can do all of this on market and sell "as-is", minus the agents commission, sharing closing etc.