Your post here, while I have not gone through the link's yet, seem's to squarely hit the nail on the head.

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

That means if a tenant leaves once a year I have two weeks to get someone in before I go in the red.

In rare instances we will let someone pay through Square or Stripe, with them paying the cc fee, but only in unusual cases, such as one time with a tenant who was traveling and didn't have a bank account to use with our online platform.

If they will not provide pictures of before and after that is a huge RED FLAG.

I went on Zillow and found this 1900 square foot house with 2 bed, 1 bath and a nice floorplan in the listing.

@Stuart Udis you say things like a “red flag” almost as if you don’t believe what I am saying or think that I am making things up.They are 2 different properties.

All the rest can be subbed out unless you are doing a full remodel by adding square footage to the house/converting a space (bath/bed etc).

On paper we were slightly in the red but much of that is due to one-year expenses/repairs & allowable transportation costs to get up to the property for work days ourselves. 

I'd coin Mpls "idiocy-squared".