Bring some cookies or breakfast tacos and be kind and polite......very polite. 

I agree with the above mainly because your investing in a cookie cutter property at what appears to be a mature real estate cycle.  

Sort of the middle ground between a sweet wholesale deal and a cookie cutter median house listing. 

Put the notice in a fortune cookie.

You'll see the RE business inside and out and have a good understanding of how things actually work besides the open house cookies and glitz and glam of the paychecks, and surprisingly, that helps more on the RE tests than most of the classes/studying (although all of that is really important too). 

Seems most LL’s would take a cookie cutter tenant over me even if most or all the annual rent was forked over up front.

For example, you can set up leverage exactly the way you want to, versus being forced to go with the cookie-cutter approach.

To those who think that dropping rents will still leave them with positive cash flow, there can be another way the cookie crumbles:Before the last boom and bust cycle, I used to hear landlords saying they weren't worried; they'd reduce their rents in a downturn. 

I think to be successful as a STR one has to stand out from the cookie cutter crowd.

@Winn Cook, I would be more concerned about the future buyer's inspector.