I am in the Berkeley this weekend... what you need to realize is that NOTHING that you would think is standard in Livermore ( IE SF BAY AREA) will be standard out in the mid west.. at least as it relates to 90% of what these folks talk about in the way of cash flow rentals.. its apples and oranges.. your in a triple A market not even A.. and when you read on BP about no appliances etc. those are C D some think B  but its not a California B most of the homes and the RENTERS would  be a CA F plane and simple.. no way for you to rationalize what you would have in Livermore and what is standard in the mid west...

It's still a nice return, but selling it is like cutting down the apple tree and it won't produce any more fruit.

One of my sons had no problem pulling money for a new Apple MacBook.

Wouldnt that make them apples to apples?

They now can give you an accurate and fair bid.2. get 3 bids--- Once you have a clear scope of work you can get three bids and compare apples to apples.

But selling apples on the street comes to those who think things will always be the same.

He also recommended Nexia to manage all the smart devices, but I'd also look into Homebase.ai, which offers resident communication, payments, maintenance management and smart device control through their property management web platform and ios/android resident apps for 7$ per month per unit.

You just got a really bad apple. 

Are there bad apples, sure.

Between the day job, which has involved a lot of coding and learning new stuff lately, and stuff going on in regular life, I've just had no enthusiasm for learning Apple's coding tools and a yet another new platform.That said, BiggerPockets isn't too bad.