I’m in a traditional career now and would love to scale up investing in some real estate over the next several years. 

It is so difficult to police and enforce guests, I would focus on the increased water bill. 

I know that everyone makes them out to be these great and easy properties to manage but they are extremely difficult.

ThanksXiang - Estimating the ARV before purchase can be difficult.

It's very very difficult for a PM to manage a listing and do what they need to do without owning the listing.

CA is a very difficult state to be a landlord in and there is a high likelihood that the PM was doing there best to save you from the headache of CA laws. 

We are both physicians and relatively intelligent humanoids, but without knowing what you don't know, it seems a difficult task. 

The tenant is paying their portion of the rent (the majority is coming from city) but the tenant has been difficult to deal with and I'd like to find an new tenant once their lease is up.

In a survey of high school and college-age people by software firm Jobber last year, 75 percent said they would be interested in vocational schools offering paid, on-the-job training (WSJ).”And this idea of blue collar career interest was recently discussed on the All In Podcast, which includes a group of prominent Venture Capitalists.

This put me at a difficult position having to explain the difference between cancellation and alteration request, and why alteration request is not in line with cancellation policy.