Grad students in the sciences don't go away for the summer (with the exception of those who do  fieldwork during summers).

Being a landlord is not a perfect science, some bad tenants will get through your net.

You can learn to screen tenants ... it is not rocket science ... you may even find it easier to manage tenants than it is to manage bad property managers or to find a good one ... seriously.

(From https://www.reference.com/science/many-btus-human-...)

Water/sewer/garbage has to stay in my name so I add it to their rent when the bill comes- Computer Science students are great.

Sure it isn,t science, but a quick mental note of the 1% "rule" or 2 % "rule" might give you some guidance.

There's a whole science to encouraging vibrant, sustainable communities, and turning MFRs into mini-hotels ...

@Lee Liu has some excellent points, especially the part about comps, or being really dead on accurate with comps, being an art-or I'd say 50/50 art and science (or really stats and figures I suppose is more accurate) @Mike H. also has some good info, although he mentions "appraisers" a few times and I'm not sure if he specifically means people who are actual appraisers or not, but I'd say that the realtor he mentions who pulls her comps from properties so far off from what he's looking at, so that makes me wonder why he's still using that realtor.

BTW, this is why my book is still in the grinding stage, 50 states, federal regulations and trying to orchestrate those matters into a commonly accepted practice is like rocket science.

In my opinion, managing rentals is not rocket science.