I use good quality faucets and toilets.

I also like the idea of having someone onsite because my impression is they have more interest in picking quality tenants.

I cannot speak to the quality of anything or anyone referenced herein, but it's a place to start.

I was looking around for a way to enhance our retirement funds & I read a few books on financial freedom.

Tons of bad weather, high insurance costs, high maintenance, tenant quality kinda sucks compared to midwest.Not a fan of texas right now.  

If those cabinets have good boxes (i.e. plywood) and you want to save costs, you could re-face them (or maybe even repaint).Alternatively, if you replace the cabinets, I would look for ones with good quality boxes that you could reface down the road.  

Good quality work for a great price.

With trying to rent over the winter when tenant quality is worse, I caught about half applicants lying on their applications, ridiculous. 

If there is really high cash flow day 1 at market price, that to me is a red flag, not a green light, since it likely means I'm taking on extra risk from the quality of tenants and the neighborhood.

What I learned from it is that I can't trust rehab qualities by contractors without seeing it all in person.