I know I should not say that as things still bite me in my marble sculpted butt....

If you look over the last 100 years, the cycles are all over the place with no clear patterns.

When I posed the question, I wondered if there was a similar pattern happening in real estate.

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Second you've probably changed your drivers licenses, voters registrations, homestead, buying patterns, and tax returns to all reflect your new primary residence and the fact that this is a rental.  

Someone paying $1200 a month may expect stone (e.g. granite or marble) but someone paying $600 a month is going to take what ever is there.Note that I haven't even touched on styles.

If they won't accede to your view of fairness, you can pick up your marbles and go home.

Is there a pattern of making mistakes regularly, as opposed to once in awhile?

The BP calculator does not know unique location dynamics, supply and demand, redevelopment, gentrification, demographic patterns, job and population growth or lack of, schools, crime...you get the picture.

The investors I know doing it for many decades over follow a similar pattern.