A deal could look like a high-yielding home run on paper, but when the investor can't collect the rent, it's a big strike out!!!

You have a lot of strikes against you (probably - what does the rest of the market look like where you are?

This sounds like strike 2.

Insurance - ValuePenguin, Metro Property Taxes - LendingTreeLow disaster risk - When a tornado or other natural disaster strikes a city, it doesn't just obliterate individual properties.

Just strike a balance.

Here's the latest I've seen about it: https://www.kut.org/post/state-appeals-court-strikes-down-austin-rules-short-term-rentals.

. #2 I would say is to understand how to back into a strike price on a buy.

Never invest in any location with rent control.Low disaster risk - When a tornado or other natural disaster strikes a city, it doesn't just obliterate individual properties.

If I can say yes to these questions, then those other metrics are what I use to drive a valuation to bound incoming liability and use that to either strike a deal, or not.  

But to me being the glass is half-poison guy, I took touch up' to mean "we'll charge you $500 bucks and touch up a couple of spots in one room for 10 minutes with 10 dollars worth the paint".The maintenance guys are in-house, and they tend to be the same people also doing the inspections, which strikes my nerve as a possible conflict of interest.