No doubt I will stabilize the property and make it profitable, but this totally defeats the purpose of buying turnkey and leaves a sour taste in my mouth. 

-"One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat."

I cannot cashflow on that (as a rental) unless I am going to put money down which defeats the purpose.  

Second, everyone of of those people will want to rent a SFR, they don’t want to go back to an apartment, that’s admitting defeat.

But like you said In your story some force (the Enemy) whom we already know is defeated any, tried to come in a destroy but the God we serve stepped in to intervene!

The US really is the only country that has assisted defeated countries with rebuilding instead of taking them over as occupied lands and imposing their own rules on the people.

One of them was by Theodore Roosevelt(sp) :"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat"

Rent control was defeated in Chicago, but it will be back.

Kinda defeats the purpose.

I'm not much of a poster. typically I would stick to the forums and lurk around learning whenever I can just so I don't get wrapped up in the average menial arguments that happened on so many forums, but that would really defeat the entire point of networking this site promotes so much.