That Depends on how busy they are and how busy your market is.

They can't control the utility company repairs, so this makes since.Hopefully they will get all these online quickly too.

Always get professional inspections and understand the local market.

This seems mostly an academic exercise as lease rate and Cap Rate are largely set by the market.

to me its market dependent and hind sight you know what they say.so for me it was selling the 2 homes I had in Palo Alto and one in MIlpitas.Milpitas I bought that brand new for 79k  Palo Alto one of them I paid 180k for and the other 350k.. if I held those until today..

I've noticed that we don't have as many market research tools as investors in the US.

I'm not interested in fannie/freddie secondary market loans as they're a totally different animal.

As far as podcasts - it sounds like I am promoting my own here but since someone mentioned them here is a podcast called KC Multifamily Minute and is a weekly show that details all of the on market deals in KC. 

Rent is $1,725 with existing tenant, a little under market so scope to increase in future, especially if I do a cosmetic update. 

Most markets will have some sort of local STR host group on Facebook you can join, or I would even do a quick search via Airbnb and find a host that way and message them and ask them to lunch or coffee to pick their brain.