Renting by the room is not unusual, but the host usually lives on site to manage it.

It’s not unusual on a $100K investment to experience a min 8% preferred return or cash in your pocket of $8K while experiencing a paper loss on your annual K-1.

Ultimately if they are not serious about selling, there's not much you can do to force their hand.Prop 2: Not too unusual with tenant occupied multi-units to not want ten thousand looky loos trampling in and out of the tenants' living area.

Would it be an unusual process to just look at their properties, run my own numbers to compare to what they are advertising, and go from there?

It is not at all unusual for a unit to last 20 years or more with maintenance.

This is an unusually big drop and big rebate according the person I'm working with, but not unheard of.  

Your sphere unless unusually large will get you a few deals in a year.

Your experience doesn't seem too unusual - you will receive a large number of inquiries, your job (or the property managers job) is to sort them and provide quick and clear responses to applicants on next steps (denied and reason for denial, etc).

It is not unusual in some parts of the country that have droughts to have new water connections limited or on a wait list.Also you need to check the historical use of the lot. 

Last year it came early getting started late February which was unusual to see.