Are you including cleaning of common area, repairs, pest control, and landscaping under maintenance?

This doesn't require you to actually own the property but still control it and potentially set yourself up for money up front, monthly, and on the back end.I am looking to find investors who are using this exit strategy for their business who can provide any Automation tips for the selling process. 

This is where if you are gonna be a salesman,you need to use your powers of persuasion.Find their pressure points and emphasize you are there to alleviate those pressures.Take control of the negotiations by gently reminding them that you want to buy but can move on to the next deal at anytime.You have to make them worry that if they don't cooperate and comply with your contingencies,you will walk on them.Why are they selling?

Don't know why, but they do.You need to find "Asset Managers", they are the people that control the REO's at banks.

This week, the first two benefits to cover are access to capital, and leverage.Access to CapitalThere are many ways to skin a cat (i.e. become your own boss and control your own financial future).

Remote leasing to someone who lives far away brings added risk precisely because you cannot enforce things.

Have you written letters to them requesting additional pest control?  

I like the idea that each room can be individually controlled to maximize comfort and efficiency. 

This mean that you are not in control of what happens to the complex.

Potentially able to add another unit without too much difficulty, somewhere within Pasadena/Glendale to stay out of rent control.