I replace the shower facets with matching new bronze brushed finishes.

Would it be nice to buy stocks now at 20-30% off "retail" price with a few clicks rather than wielding a hammer and paint brush and/or chasing down contractors and unclogging toilets?

Depending on your goal for REI, you'll need to brush up on certain things to help you.- The Area you are wanting to invest- Rehab costs (You're going to run into repairs at least)- Working with agents, contractors, property managers, lenders, etc.One way is to invest in in-state.

Next time I will budget the work conservatively without me lifting so much as a paint brush.

Commercial in the right neighborhood location has to be evaluated on its own merits rather than a broad brush.

Your should brush up on that. 

Certainly, we can all agree that every segment of society has a few bad actors.However, in your post, you set out haranguing other landlords (that posted above, as you state) for some perceived wide-ranging ill that there does not appear to be any evidence for, at least on this thread.To baselessly condemn the entire profession without that merit, to me, does indeed reinforce a false narrative.If I were to muse publicly, as you did, that since a few individuals belonging to an industry (or ethnicity) did wrong, paint them all with a broad unilateral brush and declare “and people wonder why (that group) have a bad name”, I’ll bet you’d use a harsher term than “false narrative” to describe that sentiment.Landlords have a very unfair negative public image because of a very small percentage of individuals in the industry, and you are not helping.

Usually they are ran under the house and out the shortest route possible.You can go to a big box store and buy the long brush to stick in there or if you have a little while to air the house out, a quicker method is to take your leaf blower and blow it out.  

@Brian Geiger, again, yes your broad brush definitions hold true. 

A dark colour to match the countertops or a brushed nickel.