The problem I have seen across the board is that most agents simply don't understand the principles of investing, what investors are looking for or how to walk a property and adequately estimate repair costs.Unfortunately, most of these skills are only acquired through adequate study and conducting your own renovations. 

This might be the problem for your market.Second, HH deals naturally have higher mortgage payments due to the low down payment.  

Tech companies like Switch expanding expanding operation and the population is still growing at almost 2% a year....mainly driven by natural growth as migration has been slowing down. 

They will naturally tell you big jobs are time consuming.

Any deposit required to be paid in advance of the start of the work cannot exceed one-third of the total contract price or the actual cost of any material or equipment of a special order or custom made nature, which must be ordered in advance of the start of the work to assure that the project will proceed on schedule.

Double check with your lender but I believe you can do this, or something similiar in nature.

Prior to that I was forcing the square peg of property management through the round hole of Quickbooks - adequate but definitely not ideal.RM is pretty robust so if starting from scratch the learning curve could be pretty intense.

One such negative is that in Minneapolis, an owner cannot pull their own permits for repairs since only natural citizens have that right.

In my experience most properties with structural issues are not discounted adequately to cover the cost to correctly remedy the problem(s). 

Insurance companies require evidence of damages and expenses - it stands to reason AirBNB would also require such things.That said, they should be more specific about things such as why the invoices you did submit were not adequate.