@Kerry Baird thanks for the encouragement & quick insight to your story, sounds very intriguing.

Also it is confusing to say where is, at least to me as that sounds like the location is an issue.

The company guaranteed the rents and replaced the outgoing tenant with another. 

Your training runs sound like a great idea to get to know various areas.  

So, in other words, you want to go behind the bank's back...do you think, just on the surface, that this sounds like a good idea?

Along with the standard work I do on projects, these units included replacing all galvanized water lines to copper, upgrading the electrical infrastructure and installing instant water heaters.I hope that this helps!

I would only change these items if I know the area does not see much vacancies or if I replaced everything breakable at the initial renovation phase.

Sounds like your niche market is a good idea.  

We've done both...replaced..and kept. 

Sounds like something I would be interested in, you can count me in!