Well unless the market in your area demands it I certainly would not go out of my way to buy laundry appliances for the vacant unit just to appease a potential tenant .

Your plan appears to fit your situation very well and executed properly has the potential to reap large rewards.

We recently added 3 AirBNB vacation rentals in Costa Rica to our investment portfolio, and my advice is to consider:1 - all potential expenses (it is higher than you might think for AirBNB, depending on location, upscale or not, outside management, etc), especially start-up furnishing expenses2 - high and low seasons because occupancy may not be consistent throughout the year. 

I know we could potentially get multiple properties with 40k.

My point is maybe it will hit too close to home that the potential stress it would cause is more heartache than what it's worth. 

So for my first potential I am thinking about refinancing my primary residence just NW Atlanta so that we can have the down payment on a slightly bigger home as well as pay some debt off and establish an emergency fund.

Investigating the potential of an additional onto a house for the purposes of going from 2 br 1 ba each duplex, to 3 br, 2 bath each duplex. 

It's a really cool city with potential to get even better.

I found a potential property, I analyzed the property.

Do my own marketing where I need to spend almost $2500 to potentially find a dealAs of right now I'm leaning to #2 but wanted to know how other rehabbers handle these situations?