Did the second myself with free rental machine..

The number one tenant issue I have had is with washers/dryers thus I try to avoid providing them, but when I do, I write into the lease that these appliances are provided "for convenience only" and all repairs to the machine should be made known to the landlord but are on the tenant's dime to repair or replace back to the working condition it was in upon move-in.

ATM machine denied me........

If you put in every single screw in correctly, and design the system for each screw to be in the perfect place in the end you will end up with an amazing machine".In other words you need to make sure EVERY SINGLE element in your system (machine) is perfect, and in the end you don't have any other scenario left BUT a perfect machine (system).Focusing on "lead generators" is inherently flawed.The better system of course would be  not investing in ways for you to go after leads.

I've been thinking that getting a pickup could help our landlord duties since we might have to move couches, washing machines, etc sometimes. 

I just put my old washing machine in an STR. 

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Little by little I'm dissipating the fog that surrounds the playing field and I'm starting to envision a path forward.My first goal in this journey is to buy a screaming deal multifamily house (4plex ideally) at a low entry point (think midwest) where I can build equity and start to build my cash flow machine. 

SD was $1000.00100.00 deduction for mice, missing CO detectors, broken light fixture.300.00 for paint - not for labor nor did we hire a professional company or an ozone machine, they smoked inside the rental unit, found cigarette butts in multiple locations and burn marks on floors, Fixtures, ceiling tiles had to be painted one by one, all ceilings, and walls were full of nicotine, and we had to use kilz primer about 15 g of them in total so that is all we charged for.