My advice is to keep trying because all it took was to find the right smaller bank willing to take a chance on me. 

For those of you who are starting out and want to learn more about real estate depreciation and cost segregation! 

Campus housing has been under tremendous headwinds for the last 4 years.These properties were sold with extremely aggressively optimistic projections, as well as a price that represented a significant premium to fair market value.So sorry to hear about your investment.

Suppose you're always on the lookout for ways to help your clients grow their investments and add value to properties.

That's great to see how well you've done.

Quote from @Robin Simon: Welcome to BP!

That would be the best move for you to find good contractors and reliable ones for your projects.

Not sure how many PMCs you've had bad experiences with, but we'll take exception to:"Then do a thorough research on tenant applicants (note: leaving this to a PM may be hazardous to your financial health)".BP seems to have more threads about screening mistakes by DIY landlords as opposed to PMCs.Now, if you'd have mentioned Maintenance, you'd get no argument from me:) Even the PMC industry acknowledges maintenance as one of the biggest challenges.Rereading my post, I kinda see how I sounded negative toward PMs.  

Here's the problem - in order to be fully dialed in the model needs to be unstable.

@Yaroslav Shtogun assuming this is something you can tackle yourself and with your network doing the full deal would be an awesome project for you!