If you engage with tenant drama all the time you'll be doing that 24/7 for the rest of your life.

., and based on previous life experience, I am confident somehow, somewhere, someday, I'll be able to use this information to my advantage.

That’s life, things happen.

If the software is not simplifying your life or making you more accurate, you shouldn't use it.Software does have extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

I did not do a separate criminal background check as I trusted the info from Zillow (Big lesson learned never to trust the Zillow data again in life).

You are a high w2 earner, The house is worth 110k today, you are buying from your grandma for 60k in exchange for free rent for life, upside ARV of 200k.The costs of owning the house will help provide tax relief on your high w2 earnings, you are buying a great chunk of equity that will pay off in the future, and you and your grandma are doing each other solids. 

For family life, there are great communities with good schools and a lot of kid-friendly activities.

When you move out you begin to experience POSITIVE CASH FLOW in which your tenants help you buy the property.....where eventually you own it out right, and now it becomes like a pension..........Predictable and Sustainable income for life.   

It frees you up to focus on living your life and acquiring more property.

I’ve come to think of this period of my life as my real world MBA, and view my laundromat as a fantastic starter business.