He has fantastic content centered around building a business and thinking about new products & services.

The management companies typically look at maintenance as more of a profit center than they do as a cost to control.

When the sale of an asset yields high returns, a straight split distributes more money to limited partners and a waterfall structure distributes more money to the general partners.Using Your Investing Goals to Determine Which Real Estate Syndication Structure is Best for YouIf your personal investing goals are centered toward ongoing passive income, a deal with a preferred return (waterfall structure) might better suit your needs because greater cash flow distributions throughout the project lifecycle are likely.

Do your tenants rather want to live closer to social life/night life/ "city center" type of locations (apologies for the vague description) and driver further to the Hospital? 

One property is walking distance (15min.) to metro station and shopping center but has average schools (Elementary rating: 6, Middle: 9, High: 7).  

If you can drive a couple hours out of the city centers the competition is perhaps more normalized.

Small strip centers with a diversity of smaller tenants may enable you to offset that risk and you can move them in and out more easily (similar to apartments) - intimate knowledge and a good local network is hugely important here. 

According to them "the water meters are installed on one of the property corners, not in the center of the property".

If they have something they need to tell me, they use the message center. 

From the other side, I rented a Hilton timeshare right next to the Las Vegas Convention Center for CES this year and got a great deal.