.$300 per year is not unreasonable.

Is it unreasonable to expect a low monthly rent payment of $300-$500 to offset the cost of property taxes, repairs, insurance?

Is this an unreasonable fee?

Also, many people have good points - selling might be a good option, or try as best you can to get the smell out through a professional cleaning service because it is not unreasonable for potential tenants to have asked that since they will be living there.

I have listened to a lot of the podcast and also browsed on here to know that this might be a foolish question.How "unreasonable" is it to want property management when you first start out?

Maybe that's it's personal and proprietary for some and it's not unreasonable to keep that information close to ones chest -so no worries if it is - but for as much discussion goes into project level returns and LP level returns, not as much is discussed about the returns on the GP side when using OPM.

And making life difficult with ambiguous policies and unreasonable compliance standards is not going to help achieve their stated goals.

Id make sure to weigh the pros and con of waging war on the only appraiser in the area though.I only know what youve mentioned, but if its a small town with 1 appraiser, those numbers dont sound too unreasonable.

The tenants upfront might take cash for keys but they are being difficult and unreasonable at the moment, so we are anticipating eviction. 

It wouldn't be unreasonable at all for you to get paid 10-12% interest on the money you put into the deal right off the top.After that it's a profit split if you're flipping the house. 75/25 or 50/50 would be my suggestion to keep things simple, but only if they are putting in some real work on the rehab.