The smallest items can help you document your files that this was a surprise and that you really did have the intent to hold for investment purposes.

How do you account for the purchase of staging items?

If you don't have those items in your lease, serve a Cure or Quit.

To be honest I am absolutely pleased with Appfolio,  I just called on Monday for customer support, with a new item, and I had a return pone call the same day.  

Chicago is such a diverse city.

Our backgrounds and situations are very diverse but there may be similarities and/or experiences to learn from.

I am hesitant to trust a third party airbnb manager over the long term, and even if you have a great management company, there are still a lot of items that are reliant on the ownership.  

You could end up with a non paying tenant or eviction and some major capex item simultaneously.

In NH at least, because of the sheer number of old multifamily building, even on the larger side, a lot of items are grandfathered in.  

There was no process in place for the removal of large items and none of the tenants thought to bring it to our attention!