There is a reason puppies are so darn cute. 

I'm a graphic designer by trade so its Mac all the way.

My background is in graphic design.

Take a look at the graphic I posted in this thread...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/67/topics/89759-order-of-the-rehab

The quality of people that work with you, how to treat your customers (tenants), structure of your leases, quality of your product, etc...there is a lot more, but this should help get you started.This framework (below) will help you develope your strategy:This graphic is from Gary Eldred's "Make Money with Small Income Properties".  

Looking forward to meeting everyone to hopefully help others with my limited knowledge and learn more about this business to help run my mother's rental property the right way, possibly buying my own property or properties in the near future.By the way, I am a senior motion graphic animator at an ad agency in Tampa Bay for about 10 years, and an artist all my life.  

Our visitors would say how "neat" and "cute"/ "quaint" the community was and really liked the space as the whole tiny houses concept is hot these days.So, we reached out to a local college business school and recruited some students to do a market study for us and found that we just might be able to make the tiny space concept work on this property.Instead of spending a lot of dollars to sweep the property and build it from scratch (never-mind finagling the financing for such an undertaking), we were able to spend a fraction of the cost to renovate these units with a great response and a good return.In addition to learning that the tiny home concept may work for many demographics, we also found that the 55 and older community may be very receptive to these types of units.

Though we did have some issues with some infographics and ended up hiring a graphic designer.

I thought "rental investor" because overall the house has been well-cared, has a great floorplan, and with some new flooring, and a few very minor things it's a cute house as a rental )for a blue-collar family.

I still freelance as a graphic design so I'm self employed and full time employed.