It’s good to screen tenants with all the standard checks, however I put the most stock in rental history.  

The mayor challenge here is to accurately know and predict how much and the time it would take to renovate the units that are not rent-ready to bring occupancy to 95%.

This larger downpayment would require me to liquidate stocks which I am not too keen of doing at the moment.As an active listener of the BiggerPockets podcast, I'm well aware that midwest markets like Indianapolis, Cleveland, etc. are the "top" markets these days in terms of current growth + affordability.

Given that, we would get an immediate boost in cash flow which will also be very predictable month to month and save myself a bunch of time managing my property managers and dealing with the ups an downs of active real estate.

While no one can predict interest rates with complete certainly, they have already come down from the highs 7-8 months ago.

Zillow rent estimator predicts $3000/month I’m not looking to cash flow much year 1.

It's more like directly investing in non-Fortune 5000 (yes, that's 5000, not 500) stocks.- What do you think will happen if you do this without a LOT of research? 

open houses are going to be very important to listing agents is my prediction.. no longer the bane of the top producing agents work week and sloughed off to beginner agents.

The appraisals are awful, awful, awful at predicting rent price. 

Over time, gain knowledge and experience so that one day 3 or 4 deals down the road, one is ready to handle the huge responsibility of taking care of other people’s cash.One should also take stock of where they are at - what strength and capabilities they have, what income, what amount of capital, who their social and professional sphere is, etc etc and then come up with a real aka tic plan as to how to proceed.This all can be done but it takes a cold hard assessment of reality and then consistent effort over time to make it happen.Now that @Amir owns some rental property, he can tell his friends, family and associates about it and as they see him do well, NOW he will have more success asking for capital to do bigger deals.There’s an expression How does one eat an elephant?