Even though it isn’t commercial property a bank lending to you for future CRE deals will look favorably on the fact that you have some investment property management on your resume - some banks may even deny you if you don’t have that experience.Good luck!

These 3 bed, 2 bath homes tend to be robust during recessions, but also attract quality tenants.How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

I'd make sure I include a resume to show you serious.Once in contract, you can go thru books and physical and then request a price adjust (aka retrade).

Metro Phoenix has a robust and competitive real estate market...most "deals" require value add eg - buy with cash/hard money for a discount, put more money into property, then sell for a profit or refinance and keep as a long term investment. 

Wilmington/Philadelphia has a very robust healthcare market. 

I think self-managing is a great way to start, learn, and build your real estate investor resume but you need to ensure that you are comfortable spending the time and have the desire to learn to do it right, because there are a ton of legal requirements and harsh ramifications for doing something incorrectly. 

At the beginning of Covid  production was shut down and then when it resumed it was assumed that building would fall off but it didn't so supply remains down.

(stay a year to have a good looking resume and to avoid residency issues in the future/satisfy owner occupancy obligation. 

From 2010 to 2013, an average of 3,000 apartments were completed each year.Several years of robust deliveries pressured the vacancy rate, which rose 50 basis points to 5.9 percent in 2017.

As for future rent speculation, unless we have a sustained and robust general economy, I don't expect Bay Area rents to go up much over the next several years.