And while I was able to increase rents substantially, the making the garage a garage again, also involved a full gut remodel of the rest of the house, so the design and newness certainly played a big roll on the rent increase.Second case study, my wife and I recently bought a flip.  1960's built, four bed 2.5 bath house.  

While house hacking your first year, continue to learn and study as much as you can.

That said I do agree that perfect ratings set off alarms for most, there have been studies with Amazon reviews about this.

Let's use Brewerytown 10 years ago as a case study.

Otherwise, you need to put out some money on a market study.  

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Study the market.

Have you considered a cost segregation study on your properties? 

Where are you studying self storage as an REI?

The very first thing to do is to do an 'Engineering Based Cost Segregation' study performed to see where you can get back some serious money, using your rentals, to get back some serious money from the IRS.