And then 2nd day another person visited for inspection and said they need to remove padding.

Before the late 1970s there were no real estate gurus, no real estate investment courses, no house flipping TV programs, no real estate get rich books, no real estate investment clubs, and what experience the general public had about real estate was limited to buying their personal residence. 

I'm curious about your thoughts on using AI to fully automate maintenance requests, including renter requests, troubleshooting, and appointment scheduling, while providing personalized communication to residents.Would you consider trying such a solution?

The advice give in normally very board, mainly because we don't know you personally and you need to keep you personnel stuff personal.  

That person is best to guide you with the offer, but if you have a general question I'm happy to help.

We had to go meet many vendors in person to show we were not that company from New Jersey that stiffed them.We don't operate that way. 

I would also like to do my first business deal with somebody so I can learn an gain experience from that person.

You may need to keep asking for someone that knows the ordinance, before you get a person on the phone that can answer your questions.

How many investment properties do they personally own?

I personally like SFH, but thats just me.