The competitive advantage of Apple is the ecosystem they created for all of their products.It sounds like you have a nice product and I hope that it does well for you in your market. 

Hey there,First off, I want to thank you for taking the time to read this post.Second, I want to provide some context of what I'm trying to achieve and hopefully that'll help articulate the advice a little better.A little bit about me:- I have never invested in real estate- I've been following the BiggerPockets ecosystem for about 6 months or so now- I've read some of the BiggerPockets Publishing books, but am still reading more and more- I have approximately $30k left over each month that I'd like to start utilizingMy goal is to reach $10k/mo in passive income starting with single-family buy and hold properties. 

Real estate is a lot like an eco-system; you've got your prime-rib eating humans on the top and your maggots on the bottom, but they all have a purpose and they all have opportunity. 

From our own eco system here in SF we are seeing some temp migration to near suburbia (Marin, Sonoma) or Lake Tahoe or nearby beach towns like Monterey.

When I got there, I noticed not a single square foot of the paved driveway was 1 whole piece, the pool liner was stretched off the walls down to the deep end where a new ecosystem was forming. cracks in the grout of the brick (foundation issues, potentially), tarp on part of the roof (but the whole thing was garbage anyway), water damage throughout and a thriving community of mold.

I will say while there are certainly agents that are just straight liars & know it, I’ve honestly become convinced most agents give what they think is good advice, there’s like a whole media ecosystem just for agents that exists at brokerage’s and on social media, and honestly if you don’t have critical thinking and/or want to fit in, it’s just easier & more profitable to just go with it.

I see they have a similar ecosystem integration as Schlage Encode, with direct integration into a similar number of popular PM systems out there. 

Capital gains and depreciation recapture really drive a large portion of the 1031 ecosystem.

The inherited tenant (from the seller&Roofstock) along with the illegal human and animal occupants got evicted, trashed the property, left a whole ecosystem of vermins behind.

Deals get harder to come by as the ecosystem gets crowded.