The longer you're in the business, the more weight you'll carry - but ONLY if you know what you're doing.

You have a dark couch, the rugs are also dark, and the walls are a tanish/yellow.oPaint the walls whiteoGet a lighter color couchoGet new, light-colored rugs.

As for the property management quote, I wouldn’t put a lot of weight in that unless you are going to use property management. 

The figures in the example are strictly to explain the strategy, please don't put too much weight on it.There is a cancellation clause in the contract that protects the home owner and contractor.

I've seen as many as seven...surprising the structure could hold the weight with added load of snow in winter!

Hands on expectance far out weights reading books.

I’d be unnerved about losing 500$ a month If your going to Subsidize their rents they can Atleast pull their weight around the place instead of just sitting around watching jeopardy in their craft- matic adjustable beds  .

Using materials with a higher density than water, composites, metal, plastics etc. etc. you can either do something and hope it floats, or you can find the necessary equations and figure out first the weight of it all, cross reference that with the water displacement weight, and calculate FIRST whether the boat will float or not.Everyone that does DMM is basically building boats this first method.EVERYONE that does DMM is  shoots arrows in the dark, and HOPE some will stick.

Not to mention since they are already going through Chapter 13 BK that means they already have multitude of payments on numerous assets in which they’re behind on, so relieving them of a monthly mortgage may be a huge weight lifted off their shoulders.

Thanks for your thoughts @Robert Gilstrap, I'm sure that for a novice landlord a PM company is worth thier weight in gold.