Many OOS investors pick one market to master before expanding.Spending the next few months learning and analyzing deals is a great plan!

Pick a different area to look in.

There are clear winners in types of photos that should be included in your listing, along with examples of listings I believe achieve this.

When they pick up, explain that you meant for your LLC to be a disregarded entity and you HAVE NOT filed any tax returns yet.

that's a pretty intensive list more than most home inspector bring 

It drives me nuts seeing the lions share of blame being placed on weather in main stream media (talking as an aggregate whole not going to cherry pick individual ones of differing messaging) when I see a laundry list of obvious human caused contributing factors. 

It's amazing how cheap it can get when you're paying physical cash and having your contractor pick it up at the warehouse.

REI Game Changers is a beginner program that relies on cheap spray and pray list marketing.

Do I at least seem to be picking reasonable properties?

After having managed in both New Britain and Hartford, I would pick a nice area of New Britain over a Nice area of Hartford - unless you are speaking specifically of the West End of Hartford.