Yes, many of them are not the sharpest tool in the shed and it is true that there is a huge performance gap between agents.

So the developers have performed some interesting magic- they’ve sold condos to people who cannot hope to profit on the cash flow.

I really like to keep a close watch on my investments and living within access to them is the best way to insure the property performs to my standards. 

At the end of the day, everyones ultimate goal is to become the bank and simply lend out a pile of money and collect a return rather than having to do the grunt work of making these assets perform.

Look up average performance of those markets on platforms like Pricelabs and call around to find out expenses (there are also many market specific resources on FB and YT).

Based on their own information and even double checking with other of the online calculators and realtors etc. just to get an idea and see if the arv was at least accurate or close to what it was expected, which their appraiser even agreed was close they still went with a different value (far less, to about 100k less).

Ultimately it's important to be accurate, consistent, and in a controlled pace in executing a task. 

@Dave Naphy- yes - you can use a HELOC for  down payment funds ...make sure you tell your lender your plans so that they can factor in the accurate HELOC payment information into your qualification ratios .....some lenders  will use the actual heloc payment and some lenders will use a percentage of the line amount so make sure 

We're in the middle of low season with an average booking window of 30 days so I'm not expecting a lot of tangible performance improvements until early September.Re: Revenue management, is there anything I'm missing to improve this area? 

I don't really care if one party moves out, but that doesn't mean they don't have to perform.