Then out of the blue....

Depends what your favorite color is.If you like yellow and black, then Dewalt, red and black Milwaukee, blue Kobalt, green Ryobi, and so forth.

I would paint fascia, shutters, garage door, new gabble and post a light gray.Add black sconce light(s) by front door.Add decretive black wrought iron hardware to garage door.I would choose a craftsman style front door with six panel windows to mimic windows on house and paint it a shade of blue or red.Remove shrub and add grasses and flowers with mulch between sidewalk and house to garage door and mirror the other side for balance.

You have to justify why you did not just buy at home to get the exact same ACTUAL cash flow as what you think or blue sky profroma said you would get.

My '03 Explorer blue books for around $3k and is great for hauling the fam (and construction materials).

Review your documentation, especially email, to see if you can demonstrate that you had the intent to hold but received an offer out of the blue.  

In Elmhurst (class A western suburb of Chicago), a very significant part of our tax bill goes to funding our blue ribbon elementary school and other phenomenal public schools.

Generally, you want to stay out of Ruskin (south of 107th, north of Longview and east of Blue Ridge).

I avoid properties I wouldn't want to live in the location, (crime, high power wire over head, near a toxic zone, fronting a highway) I keep to 3 bed 2 bath that are in blue collar neighborhoods with everyday people.

@Brandon StevensThere is another recent topic about best place to have a VRBO.It seems that the Blue Ridge Mountains around Gatlinburg TN is one place people are buying more VRBO properties.I would try and buy 4 or so properties at 20% down and finance them all.