It’s not for the casual, would-be investor.However, your BEST investment is always in your own education.

Tell them they aren't allowed to hang large pictures that require wall anchors or they will have to pay to have it repaired when they move out. 

All 1300 aren’t going to stay forever, but I promise you a few are going to stick and change the landscape.

My rental properties in the Bay Area aren't in a fire zone but I live in a fire zone.

Imagine you aren't able to make a phone call to get information and you need to physically go to where the person is to speak with them. 

These appraisers are too educated as in general this rule is virtually never applied on MF lots (I have heard of it once).  

Education here is probably all that is needed.  

Most of these course instructors aren't qualified to teach anything but the most elementary real estate concepts and try to make their courses more marketable by teaching concepts they have no business teaching. 

While they aren't the cheapest when you first buy them, Kwikset has locks that are easy to rekey without installing a new set of locks.

If you go RBTR, here are a few key criteria I've seen to assure comfort of living and lower vacancy / turnover:- at least 400sqft per tenant and no more than 2 tenants to 1 full bath -excess parking where folks aren't blocking each other in and you're not getting complaints from your neighbors about overtaking the street parking.