Assuming the PM never mentioned anything, the deferred maintenance is their responsibility.

Not only for the reasons you mention (easily manipulated, depending on format), but also have next to nothing to do with what your operations will look like.While I do agree that you should try to verify income, both through lease review, P&L, and if they will share: bank statements and tax filings, at the end of the day, I don't put a ton of value in seller financials, for many reasons.  

I'm a little surprised no one else has mentioned this yet, but if your agent is in compliance with the new rules, they would have had you sign a buyer-broker agreement before showing the house, and I pray before starting negotiations for you.

I personally doubt that will apply here because the kind of requests mentioned aren't "reasonable" ones.

(Could be process, communication, or a number of other things).Now the thing I'll mention that you might want to chat with someone about is that many folks don't take the Sec. 121 exclusion into account for situations like yours.

Listening to one of Brandon Turner's books and he mentions this (https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/plan-to-make-a-million)My question is how do you calculate your loan paydown for the principal and how much equity you've built up?

I've seen a lot of replies mentioning investing in cheaper areas, particularly the midwest.

Don't rush to invest that money into real estate because your post makes it clear you are looking for something easy that will make money while you travel and nothing that you mentioned is that.

In your case, you mentioned your PMC tried to collect the final rent payment.

Cleve, does not care , but its still a terrible idea for the reasons I mentioned,