As the investor, I take what my daily periodic holding costs are (which include interest costs, utilities, property taxes, insurance, any recurring monthly payment to hold the property) and total that.

Non-recurring property expenses may be added back, if documented accordingly."

Allow you to generate recurring income.

I raised a red flag to the property manager due to these recurring expenses for fixing this or fixing that.

(It sounded like this was going to be a recurring thing). 

The building's steam heat system was the one aspect of the building that I did not intend to immediately replace given that the boiler is only 9 years old and passed inspection before closing, but it has been a recurring headache during my 5 month's of ownership.

I was concerned about how to account the additional 1.75 up front (absorbed into the loan) and the recurring MIP payment.

They don't sell you so much on their service or training, no you just see how easy it is to use their service and you end up with 20 different recurring charges for all these tools or services that hopefully work.

But if I am being honest I kind of prefer higher taxes to higher transfer taxes because I can do my best to past this recurring cost on in my rental calculation.

One of the advantages is that you will have access to MLS (also a monthly recurring expense).