Your local rental association may also have some insight for approaching this kind of situation, relevant to the landlord-tenant laws for your jurisdiction.

No refi without seasoning UNLESS you are a current or established customer. 

What if having me do the property management was the best possible option (less fees, cheaper repairs, no rent-up fees, better customer service)? 

.- Has Madison Storage received any phone calls from customers who ask for "Madison Storage Garages"?

What can you do to be a better customer for a hard money lender allowing them more trust to lend to you? 

@Jenny Adel I have a lawn care business and many of my customers are renters and they are responsible for their lawn.

I didn't want to put this all in one response, but below is the method which was used to build the original article:MethodologyIn order to determine the best real-estate markets, WalletHub compared 300 cities across two key dimensions, “Real-Estate Market” and “Affordability & Economic Environment.”We evaluated those dimensions using 22 relevant metrics, which are listed below with their corresponding weights.

That being said I do it with 5 of them that are far away and some might say I have zero customer service skills 

Particularly relevant considering you're looking at SFH and will be competing with retail buyers.

Craigslist, Zillow and Trulia come to mind but I've also heard of, and used, Rentprov and Hotpads.Each apartment competes with all others on the market, so look where your customers (tenants) look, and see what else they're going to see right next to yours, when they're deciding which 3 apartments they're going to look at today.