I am not comfortable talking on the phone or "networking" although I force myself at times to do these things and end up mentally and emotionally exhausted.

That is a force multiplier, and it allows you to buy this asset and offset that monthly cost so you can save for the next one.

Based on the Quebec regulations your tenant could force you to apply to modify the lease if he does not agree to your rent increase amount.The question is what would it cost for you to hire someone to do the lawn.

The smart money(whatever that means) was flowing into BREIT at a breakneck pace of about $3 billion per month, essentially forcing BREIT(which I believe paid/continues to pay about a 4% yield on invested funds) to buy commercial properties hand over fist.

Even worse, companies like Google and Facebook operate for free at the cost of tracking your interests and force feeding advertising on you. 

In this case, your position is that the Tenant is responsible for the utility and you're just taking it out of your name, forcing them to take responsibility for it.

Hopefully they ease restrictions, but I would expect for anything that approaches rationality to be thwarted by the all-powerful forces in Austin that have been driving up costs and prices for end-buyers for decades.  

I worked hard to get out of that situation to be able to afford this house and these kinds of programs could potentially pull me right back there.the idea that you could own property and be forced to keep somebody in that property is insane to me.

She lost her tenant, didn't want to move in, so was forced to list it for sale. 

Prison isn't an attempt to clean up, it's forced, against his will.