As well as listening to podcasts, attending webinars, and occasionally meetups (where I am certainly a black sheep).

Now I know there is the occasional rare professional equipped with both experience and a scientific method.  

I'm a novice myself so take my suggestion with a grain of salt, but if housing prices were that bloated prior to this disaster then prices are going to plummet, and plummet hard in your neck of the woods. 

The daily use amenities will be more valuable than the occasional, so washer dryer hookups may not be required by market, although for a 5yr old property, I would assume those would be in-unit.  

It's one thing to have this happen occasionally, but I've had this happen a lot over the past year.Perhaps I need to do a better job vetting and maybe there are other ways besides making them have skin in the game and sign an exclusive agreement.

I tend to take the straight-forward approach in all cases, because even though this is a business and we have to play coy occasionally, we are talking about a persons living situation, so it's rude to not be up-front, IMO.I hope that was helpful.

Now there's a smell I don't want in my property for the next owner or occupant.Dog pee is less acidic and dogs don't mark, they have occasional accidents - again the fault of the owner. 

I do occasionally hear about non-owner occupied loans with ~15% down, but they are unicorns, @Quinton Bogle.

You have to understand, the majority of tenants that take these boutique offices are typically solo shops (attorneys, counselors, designers, insurance, logistics) and occasionally have up to 4 employees.

You can pick up homes here for 100k occasionally and BRRRR them.