This is an outgrowth of the under 6 mental health homes and care facilities that do not need a permit (though they cannot be within, I think it's 500 feet of each other, but I digress) In Riverside, CA this is absolutely true because it is commonly done with rentals near UC Riverside and I have confirmed it with City planning...

I don't expect to be physically or mentally functional when my 2017 vintage loblolly planting is harvest ready and heredity says I won't be here.

Your strategy may be very different if you plan to do this full time - I have another FT job I love hence the slow and steady mentality.

You sent me a PM last week, stick with what we spoke about  as he  and I have worked together for about 5 years and simply  have a fantastic team in place ( client first mentality ) doing more then 150 deals together ,( I have done more then 400 ) you will be just fine.

I appreciate your predicament.I was just watching one of Peter Harris' latest video posts on YouTube ("Ugly Side of Commercial Real Estate") which has some good advice.But, in a nutshell, it is simply a measure of what you are comfortable with mentally, and skilled with in closing the deal.

Deciding not to keep rents at market due to the cost of turn over is the same mentality  as not doing maintenance work to save money..............Poor business practices. 

She just has a mental block against spending more than $50-60,000 for a single property.

We've been at it for quite some time, so while I'm not sure it's any faster than subbing it out would be, the quality is the same (which is extremely important with a long-term hold strategy), and our mentality has been that it's gotta be less expensive. 

We have 2 new tenants who do not seem mentally capable of paying online.

When we recruit here at BiggerPockets, I usually make no more than a minor mental note of folks - where they went to school and what they studied is far less important to me than whether they have relevant job experience and convince me of their ability to rapidly develop the related new skills they'll need to work here.