It’s also good to check whether your manager has a preferred contractor, as they might be inflating charges.What do you think about getting an inspection to make sure there are no other needed repairs?

While real estate investing aims to achieve financial freedom, this is only possible if you invest where rents outpace inflation and there is significant, sustained population growth.

Legal and ethical implications: Agents engaging in such practices may face:Legal consequencesLicensing penaltiesEthical violationsThese actions ultimately harm consumers by restricting options and potentially inflating costs.The new system, allowing buyers and their agents to negotiate commissions directly, promotes transparency and fair competition.

You have already seen the downside of a historically zero appreciation market (zero appreciation I define as historically below the rate of inflation).  

I’m not sure if the metric has changed much with inflation and rising costs but I’ve repeatedly heard that $200 per door is a good cash flow.

I don't think it would make any headlines even if all those loans were called tomorrow, and with foreclosure rates being as low as they are, the banks could probably resell those properties quickly at higher interest rates, pocket new closing costs, get low interest loans making less than inflation off the books, etc.

So to be frank the cost are padded inflated and do not even remotely look like what other PM's are doing in the area. 

Corvallis is notoriously “anti-building”, a more hyper-inflated market inside of its own bubble compared to the rest of the willamette valley.

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For example, if someone takes a small down payment and inflates the value and the borrower figures out later they are upside down the loan could default.