Whatever you all do, please be careful. 

Granted that's apples and oranges, because the new homes are larger and all in the suburbs, but as long as you can buy an existing home for half the price per square foot than a new construction home I would be careful with expecting peak appreciation.

In the next 1-5 years you could have some serious cashflow - why would you care about the associated taxes?

A few ideas:I would start by asking the tenants if they really care about the utility costs since Landlord is supplying the appliances.

Taking care of someone's asset is a responsibility that you should not take lightly. 

It is more of an accounting platform designed for real estate than a management platform.For my STR company I use hospitable and clearing.co for my management and accounting platforms.

Again, some people may be helpful, but when you are new you should be more careful until you know who is who and what is what.4.

Yes, it's easy to ask you these questions after the fact, but you won't succeed unless you carefully review your mistakes and learn from them.Not sure I agree with your statement, "RTR knew they’d messed up".

As a dedicated and hell of an agent, I find this approach is weighing me down with excessive work.Even as an investor, I struggle to understand their strategy which wasn't disclosed until after the fact (signed rep agreement) three weeks in.

In my experience, if you take care of the tenant you will likely see that average to be true.