This will help you build a positive relationship with potential tenants and increase the likelihood of finding a suitable renter.Utilize social media: Share your Zillow rental listing on social media platforms to increase its visibility and reach a wider audience.

Then gradually increase to beat the market.If that doesn’t happen, your listing will drop in the rankings and it becomes much harder to gain traction.

Strong appreciation and cashflow but you will most likely have to lower tenant qualifying standards in these areas and put up with a little more headache in the short term.

They grow in value, the tenants pay down mortgages increasing equity, you get tax benefits, and there's the appreciation. 

Calculate the cost of adding the bathroom and how that will translate to increased equity on resale or exit. 

(One of the nice things about Westminster is that they're one of the few Denver-area cities to allow non-owner occupied short-terms, so you could give that a try to boost your revenues.Also, my standard advice for first time investors is to not overthink it.

We plan on renovating each unit as they come available, increasing rents to market.

Given that to me that is the standard of service I would expect to provide, I understand their frustration.

We know that the term "Buy Box" refers to an investors standard that could give him/her the green light on buying a specific property they might be looking at, if it passes that standard.I believe that I'm lacking in the correct nomenclature and can't find the correct terms to describe this idea or concept that I'm trying to convey.

@Nick Kohilas The going rate really depends on the market, I've seen as low as 20% some places and as high as 50% in others.  10% is a pretty standard rate for a long-term rental PM, but that's a very different sort of responsibility and on the whole is less time/effort investment per property.