After looking at a few of them you will soon get a pretty good feel for what you need in the future in any other property you might be dealing with. 

May be it's worth evaluating your existing portfolio to see if there are any underperforming assets to sell and reallocate the capital to new projects?

Since you're aiming for a rental in the future, it's smart to consider cash flow.

Many other variables come into play with updating windows, my experience has been that the windows themselves are the easy part; it's the management and planning of all the layers around them that make the project easy or hard, cost effective or expensive, efficient or time consuming.

Im trying to fine tune my process to be more future oriented and not outdated. 

Hello, I am an RE investor from California, now living in Amsterdam, looking to build a team of like-minded people to invest in RE in the country.My goal is to have a weekly or monthly meet-up to go over possible opportunities and to keep our minds focused on the possibilities for future investments.

FYI we've changed our approach entirely and have lower fee initial entry points to avoid the challenges of long term project based arrangements so we can catch issues much sooner.

I had improved the property and pushed the rents to the limit, and now was moving on to other projects.2.

We also visited their office in Jacksonville, inspected completed SFHs in Ocala, and visited future sites and homes under construction in Jacksonville and SW Florida.  

@Catherine FrederickYour situation poses a common dilemma for many first-time homebuyers who are considering renting out their property in the future.