If you get accepted to UCSD, you have some intelligence. 

And you were intelligent enough to ask this question on an open public forum using what I'm assuming is your actual name. 

Consider artificial turf.

Here's another example: https://tampabayedc.com/market-intelligence/ (be sure to scroll down on the page to see some of the market data products that are readily available on the EDC site).

We are 100% compliant and go overboard to ensure everyone is treated exactly the same during the entire process from first contact to however far they make it.It's up to you, but if I were in your shoes, I'd find myself an intelligent, go-getter college student and pay him $25-$40 for his time to drive over and go down your checklist.   

I’ve “heard” rates are temporarily artificially high because the mortgage financiers have all the business they can handle already.

Travelling nurses - no thanks, they are psychotic or a mutt but have the advantage over you of being more intelligent than the welders or fitters..

It would take fantastic artificial intelligence programs to accurately predict anything better.

It seems to me like all of this is highly artificial though, don't you think? 

In some ways it will be easier to show a profit since you are living there so you will have to come up with a percentage split to be applied to the expenses.So, it helps that you don't have as much deductions applied --- you don't have to artificially inflate the rental income.