We ended up going with Coastal Oak LVP on this one. 1.99/sf, lifetime warranty, waterproof, scratch resistant and interlocking.

WTH -- it has pretty much guaranteed our maintenance guy will have steady paint work at that facility for the foreseeable future.Buy hardwood trim and paint it if you like but educate yourself on the hardness level of various woods and ability to resist damage - painted trim looks good but if people are banging into it all the time it's the dumbest thing to install what is basically cardboard IMO. 

(It was basically just several sales pitches.)Since this wasn't my first rodeo I was able to just observe, pick up a few nuggets and resist paying for anything. 

Eventually the SFR owners won't be able to resist just selling out, and then they'll be ones arguing why the new condo development on their property is actually a great idea now.

Of course you get shoddy service and fast food type answers (The path of least resistance).

Hi Ben,  The biggest problems I have with most marketplaces these days are: 1)  not enough investments to diversify into 100+ properties ( forcing investors to go to a lot of different marketplaces )2) too few core/core plus, cash flow investments to buy and hold.3) minimums too high to allow  most investors to safely diversify into 100+ investments 4) not enough recession resistant categories like  self storage, mobile home parks, etc. 

Having a great team in place is probably just as important as picking a market with good underlying fundamentals (a diverse JOBS market (ideally recession-resistant jobs like in govt., education, healthcare, defense), population growth, desirability, affordability, favorable weather and landlord/tenant laws).

Find things to embrace and surrender the resistance. 

If you take advantage of new technologies: thermal mass electric resistance heating elements or electric air-2-air or ground-2-air heat pumps (especially ductless units with split heads), electricity can actually be cheaper.We have no oil heated properties and whenever we pursue a property heated with oil, we determine the cost of converting it to natural gas or electric and bake it into our analysis.  

We just bought a non performing note with title issues that are being worked out in court and our attorney advised that title companies drag their feet and resist paying until they have to.The only thing I'd add is that I believe you should pay whatever delinquencies that exist now and clear that up.