Has anyone come across their property management company creating a "First right of refusal program" for maintenance requests? 

You could grow a portfolio but will it be sustainable?

So the incentives don't truly align so you have to REALLY want to make it happen and likely do several deals to create efficiencies.

Setting up an LLC may allow for deductible expenses, and investing in municipal bonds could provide tax-free interest.This post does not create a CPA-Client relationship.

You rent it for one year and create a successful STR business that shows a trailing 12 month net income of $75,000.  

Your goal is to plant the idea in their mind and create a situation where selling to you feels like the easiest and most logical solution for them.If you haven’t already, the first step is to get pre-approved for a mortgage so you know what you could afford if you were to purchase the property conventionally.

My only thing is that I would like to create some more immediate cash flow.  

With the limited access in Yardi, you won't be able to adjust account trees and create multiple customized financial statements. 

While this may be risky in other ways, you'd be able to continue to grow your portfolio without taking as much equity from your income producing properties and possibly sustain your continued cash flow with them. 

figuring that if I track and work towards creating and "presenting" 250 specific deals to my clients.My Theory being: Tracking "deals presented" will pull forward the need to go search and find deals, and will also drive the deals closed and revenue numbers, so we shall see but logics out to me so I'm liking it so far.