If this is your goal, you shouldn't be looking at multi-family or storage units or tax liens or cheap houses or any of the other multitude of shiny objects that will come your way.  

Nobody ever lands on Boardwalk and if they do their will likely never be a hotel there.Translation to BiggerPockets: cheap property with low income tenants can cash flow just as well or sometimes better as expensive property.

A cheap can of spray paint really changes them.

The house has recently been rehabbed and is in very good condition with new, although cheap, carpet.

I would definitely get a few nice but cheap pieces of furniture to stage the house a bit next time.

If you cheap out on materials or don't get what the contractor specifies, the 75% remaining cost in labor hours will go up and the quality of the materials certainly impact the amount of time it takes to install them.

Compare this to about 1.25 sqft for cheap laminate.

option B- Find a decent used one for cheap and get it done.

Chemicals are not cheap either.

You can get one cheap, and put section 8 in there that pays a good buck. there is enough to even have a local manager run it for you.