Property meets (yes you do have to endure a sales pitch) are a great place to chat with others with varying degrees of experience and success and find out what others are / have done.

Basically, my wife and I endured a failed JV.  

Almost always, their behavior never gets better after the the application process; this is when they are presumably showing you their best.Using this system has dramatically reduced any wasted time I used to endure as part of the showing process as well as giving me empirical data about their timeliness/responsiveness/respect for others' time.Good luck!

But you're right, not sure I would want to endure the weather there year round. 

And there is no lighting then either, so parking late at night, or going there early in the morning, could be more of an adventure than one wants to endure.

They've since taken another deposit, but I fear this may be an issue in the future - not just with getting it rented, but also due to inclement weather affecting the inside.Why wouldn't they install functioning garage doors (I recently posed this questions to them and am waiting for an answer)? 

Same thing goes for people who are extremely lazy by nature, and are not willing to endure any effort or sacrifice to maximize their product's potential.Conversely, big ego people, ones that think they, and everything they touch, is gold, often set rates far higher than they can reasonably get - and then raise hell about the tenant pool, other landlords, tax cuts, and everything else under the sun when the unit sits there vacant, forever.

No one here answered your questionIt's my understanding that YOU have to have endured the hardship.

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On the other hand, you should be prepared to get off the phone as soon as possible if you discover you are not talking with a valid prospect; this conserves your valuable time.Marketing by telephone takes more guts and endurance than many people realize.