1) If you continue waiting for the "right time ”, you’ll always be waiting.2) Your current job doesn't care about you.

One thing I did note is my insurance is $3K a year lower due to the monitored fire suppression system in these larger properties versus my smaller properties that sleep 12 or less built close to the same time.As someone who has lived in Illinois twice, the politicians there don't care if people burn as long as they can tax and spend. 

Can we just take care of this at the time of the sale? 

However if it’s a really big hazard and they fail to take care of it quickly, I might just take care of it myself rather than taking any legal action, personally.

And who cares if they did, the tenant moves out and you just rent to private pay tenants.

He is super sloppy in communications, constantly calling me and our business the wrong names which seems to show a lack of care. 

He acted like a used-care salesman - trying to be my best friend at the meeting.

If you can just make sure you are buying right, everything else falls into place eventually.There are markets that perform better than others, but unless you are holding long-term or building rentals, you shouldn't really care too much since flipping is all about buying at the right price for that market:

Careful.

Screen tenants carefully, budget for vacancies, and keep learning with books like The House Hacking Strategy and Landlording on Autopilot.Good luck!