Sometimes the due diligence information provided is worthless because it is two years old by the time I get it or it is so full of errors that you cannot trust anything that is included. 

My wife and I are starting out with our first rental, and being rookies, want to be sure that we are insured to the hilt.

I hope to connect with many experienced real estate investors of all niches, as well as other rookie investors such as myself.

If we wait until the property hits the MLS it will be too high and get big up by rookie investors.

I'm pretty rookie myself but from talking with others, the market here is good but not "red hot."

The plumber informed me that the clog was due to "user error.""

Buy and hold is the safest and most rookie strategy, grab a copy of ACRE by Don campbell.

The control board should be able to tell if the temperature sensor is unplugged or broken, so if you aren't getting any error codes on the display, the sensor is probably OK. 

This is a very very common rookie mistake.I wrote a blog about that here in BP here.

I think a personal recommendation would help most (so if anyone wants to help out a rookie feel free to).I work in PE Real Estate and we typically only deal in gateway markets, however we will do one off deals in secondary markets if the returns are healthy enough.