After a while, you will know just from looking at the listing or a drive by if you are in the ball park. 

Brokered a client this 5br 2ba house in Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago but the cheaper less nice side of town for $350,000.

However it could be location,  Common area, size, laundry, tenant qualifications (in rough areas you are not going to get many tenants with unblemished credit), parking, look of surrounding properties, etc.   

We are targeting a few areas based on strategy, West Sacramento, Midtown downtown, or for more cash flow north Sacramento and Oak Park are interesting.

Purchase price: $34,700,000 Cash invested: $7,500,000 192-unit institutional class B+ property located in between the Research Triangle Park area and Greensboro, NC.

2) What workarounds should I be aware of in any of these platforms to handle "routine" property management with units?

You may have to have a special relationship with the mayor, or stick to trailer parks that are already zoned for this use.

We would treat this like a code violation for parking on the grass or having trash out front.

For us we either do or do not provide and if it’s provided then we as the owner are responsible for routine maintenance on the appliance and only time tenant is responsible is if they did not take proper care (or use) of the appliance.as a sidenote what if a tenant said - cool not part of lease come remove it I want my own fridge - you will spend more moving it out than you would by including it in lease. 

I found the county criteria which reads as:"Property must be minimum of 1 acre, meet the underlying zone district, have adequate parking, meet the requirements set for by the Wildfire Hazard Overlay District, have valid water and sanitation, have legal access, use the primary dwelling unit, be free of violations, and have no substantial detriment to the intent of the Zoning Resolution."