This sort of deal could go south very easily and for that reason I stayed away.What would you do? 

For perspective, outside of SF you can easily get a place to rent for 2500 or so, figure another 1500 for day care.

Build yourself a Google business page, make yourself easily bookable on Airbnb (did you know that 25% of nights booked on Airbnb are for 30 day stays and more? 

You can also easily diversify there.

Facts, real world results, and human nature can't sway them because their understanding doesn't go any deeper than buzzwords and a conviction that if the whole world just thought like them then all the world's problems would be easily solved.  

Get one bad tenant and you could lose three years worth of cash flow very easily.2.

It would rent out pretty easily if you needed to wait for prices to stabilize and more buyers to come back into that area.

You want to be able to wash a king sized comforter easily which the 4.5 does.

Making matters worse the investor with limited resources cannot recover as easily as the investor who makes the risky investment but does so knowing they can afford to take the L. 

You can easily do this on a spreadsheet, and it will take less time to track than finding and learning new software.