I see people park to close to them all the time and here lovely sounds from their car grinding on the cement.

I keep the properties I have that are close to me in better and better shape by puttering on them, so it's sad when I get to KCMO and see the disrepair my lame PM has let things get into.Mostly they (PM's) will all be charming and seem great, like potential tenants, but you have to grind into them to find out how much they actually care about the client (you AND your tenants). 

If you have good skills you can get a job in multiple areas if you're willing to grind hard enough.

When you make 6 figures per deal in comission you can let off the pedal some if you want.If you are doing small ball deals you have to grind a ton to make any coin.After 15 years in the business ( where did the time go?...

Don't focus on anything like branding, super fancy systems or fancy CRM's yet - most of that kind of stuff is just shiny object syndrome.If you have the budget, I'd look into hiring someone to handle the lead generation & appointment setting process for you, so you can focus all of your efforts just on showing up to apps, negotiating and closing deals (which is the most important thing in your business, the lifeblood of it).If you don't, you'll have to do that yourself until you start working on some deals and start bringing some cash in.The most important thing is that you focus on what actually matters and ignore all the noise in the market - just do what needs to be done, and ignore everything else.Hope this helps?

I was hoping the carpet would eliminate noise to the second floor.

They're not happy with the noise and "lack of cleanliness" in the common areas, and ultimately don't feel comfortable with him there - I didn't know any of this before hand. 

Too many noise complaints and I can get the HOA board to fine me as they see fit.   

A fence isn’t going to stop the noise from the RR tracks.....people live next to the tracks but it will Always be at a discounted rent and you may likely get tenants who take it because they can’t rent anywhere else....bad credit, evictions, etc.  

You could do it yourself, but you should be budgeting for a manager regardless and right now, your work is too important to be taking calls about plumbing or noise complaints or whatever, plus you'll be changing duty stations so will need one regardless at some point.