If the investor is looking for both appreciation and cash flow; they need to be looking at cities/markets with growth (population and jobs), along with a consistent decrease in crime (all over the past 2 decades). 

Also, I see a lot of rental listings on Zillow that are decreasing their ask price.

If your occupancy rate drops, you may able to patch the damage by trying other platforms but this will further decrease your ranking on the system in the future. 

There was very little immigration before 2016 for a decade and workforce decreased, and since then, there is a net gain of around 1.5 million.

Unfortunately, not only is the Orlando property losing money every month, but it has also decreased in value since I purchased it.

The reality is we'll likely face the hardships of a (significant) decrease in spending and overall policy will be prohibitive at first.Feel like things will go 2 step backwards, 1 step forward.

We added value by decreasing the offer after the inspection and then after closing we were slowly able to get rents to market rent.

If rent does not increase at the rate of inflation, the cash flow decreases overtime.  

My posting and commenting has decreased significantly in the last several months but after the LA fires, I'm participating more. 

.: I would personally ask for a price decrease based on whatever estimate they got for the installation of that equipment (assuming you can get a loan without those things - depends big time on the bank - my local banks would do it for me).