If it's a larger organization, feel free to inquire about their different staff qualifications.2.

I’m assuming that the on staff handy man would take care of the ins and outs? 

Is it the tenants, the area, the management staff?

He built all the houses himself, maintains them (including the gardens) with a small team of staff, and has 1% vacancy rate. 

I prefer to work with local hard money lenders that do not require appraisals but have someone on staff that can verify retail comps and knows the market.

The staff here is great and the work is rewarding (flow cytometry), but it will not provide me with much financial freedom, even if I were to advance in the field. 

Others have multiple CPA's on staff. 

That said, I used to work as a real estate lobbyist -- one thing I've learned over my years, is that building departments often make up rules along the way and often are inconsistent in their rules (one inspector says this, another says that) -- if something sounds absurd, politely let them know you want to better understand the policy, and ask them to point out where its been adopted by the village board/city council -- sometimes you'll discover that the building department staff just made up the rule without any authority to do so.

(Talking to the planning department staff in both those cities, I sense a narrow window in which to get in as they plan to readdress the issue in a year or less and could outlaw it at that point.) 

I've identified a potential growth area that is in a rural situation with potential growth with highly educated students and staff.