You still have the cost of lease renewals, but that's minimal when compared to the cost of turnover.  

Selling and buying something else you want keep and doing a cost seg in would help with the tax burden probably better in this situation.

Kudos to you for doing something to create a secondary income stream. there are 5 income streams in RE rentals, possibly six if you do things a certain way.The reality here is your model (buy box) is suffering from too high an entry and too high a cost of capital.

So a room used for laundry that is 100 sq ft (quite common) costs the owner about $72,000 over the course of a decade (in today's dollars). 

I wouldn't suggest you buy a single-family home to live in because the additional cost outweighs the benefits.

If the floating rate debt starts costing too much and there is no capital to replace a rate cap, reserves run out.  

It was the best solution but it did cost extra. 

., to 2.5x or 2.75x) since tenants won’t have additional out-of-pocket utility costs.

Can try to reposition to Class B, but neighborhood may impede these efforts.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, but 15-20% should be used to also cover tenant nonpayment, eviction costs & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores of 560-620 (approaching 22% probability of default), many blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 2 years.

Most won't insure pools with diving boards or ones without a VGBA drain.2) Include the cost of a pool company to manage the pool in the rent.