I’m all for chasing your passion and feeding the RE machine in the process.

And you have yourself a money making machine!

.- Seattle is already becoming the hub of machine learning and cloud computing.

They moved in with a broken washing machine that they set out on the back porch and left that behind along with a broken window air conditioner, a freezer they unplugged but left half filled with rotted meat, bags of mismatched shoes, broken furniture, childrens clothes, christmas ornaments, soggy bedding, rotting mattresses, more dirty diapers and, ironically, unused condoms.IF you can get a Section 8 tenant who can manage NOT to have a boyfriend/girlfriend/"fiance"/brother/sister/aunt/uncle/cousin/cousins children/babydaddy/babymomma/grandchildren come live with them because they've been evicted/kicked off someones couch/basement and have no place else to shack up you might have a chance to keep your rental unit in decent shape under this program. 

I currently have Deal Machine and Propstream; both of which offer some sort of campaign.

Deal Machine, Propstream, ListSource, Mojo Dialer, CallRail, Google Voice, Carrot, Lead Propeller, CRM, Podio, etc etc.

In my opinion, the cost savings you get when buying an all in one laundry center just doesn't out weight all the benefits of spending a little more and getting better machines.  

I think it's another in one machine for the government disguised as "help".

To operate under this premise, as a real estate investor, is to think the odds at a slot machine are in your favor.

It seems you're in the position to create a solid marketing machine for the business and that will keep the pipeline full for sure.To supplement the knowledge you're learning from your parents, check out The Book On Flipping Houses, it's packed with great information.