Instead, it’s about creating a system where housing remains accessible and sustainable over the long term.

It was one of my first claims and I learned how their claim system works and never failed again. 

All that cost's $ in labor time and systems.     

If you are going to self manage you will need to build business systems and get a list of reliable vendors.  

With proper tenant screening and systems in place you can absolutely be a successful landlord.

I can go way deeper into finding good MTR markets, pursing tenants other than travel nurses, property types, scaling operations through systems (my specialty), renovations, etc but it's much harder to do in a thread.

It was the system that afforded this.

Here's a good article about current inventory versus pre-Covid.

But, for instance, I sent them a notice of rent increase effective February 1 and needed them to confirm that they have accepted the new payment terms through our electronic payment system, and even after repeated notices, they are not responding.

I am guessing that the vast majority of homes 10+ years old had some sort of water damage at some point, most had probably several.My own home is only a few years old and we had the washer spring a leak and a few years later the RO system in the kitchen started leaking into the cabinet.Seller disclosures are pretty useless in my opinion.