This also leads owners to ASSUME simpler is better when it comes to management contracts.

The time for a discount would be after it's been on the market a week or two (with no offers received) or better yet just before 30 days before a price reduction takes place. 

Research contractors better Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Nothing is better than MLS access for before-renovation comps and ARV.

Will be better from now on.

If you're going to work with contractors, collect rent from tenants, or try to bed the hot chick at the bar, you better learn to recognize warning signs and get out early. 

It 12 years, assuming you make no extra payments, you'll have a paid off condo that cash flows a lot better. 

Asking in the correct forum will get a better response.Read the RULES!

So is there better markets to buy in (in big cities)?

From what I see all the people answering to me here (and there are so many) are just coming against and refusing to agree with my simple statement: "a landlord is not above the law or norms by its personal choice or presumed capability to judge what he don't know" or as well "a landlord cannot deny or miscarriage a service to a stranger without a known valid reason and at the same time pretend to be operating professionally or loyally to the moral"Basically I'm telling if you are not able to do your business correctly it would be better to find someone else than you, mainly when your ideas about "squatter" or fair treatment are coming from ignorance or completely invented.