We are going to convert our current primary into a rental, and it will likely cash-flow well enough (including capex, maintenance, vacancy etc.) to also cover the loan repayment on a $60K home equity loan amortized over 25 years.  

The strategies we cover include buy and hold, house hacking, fix and flip, REITs, short-term rentals, and real estate crowdfunding.

Some benefits are you don't have to worry about the tenants not including their location if they email you from a different address and changing PMs won't require changing your contact info.  

That the best deal will present itself but you have to keep looking and sometimes take a calculated risk

My guess is they're not including property taxes (not to mention capex, property management etc.)

Your city likely has laws about maintaining property, including the cost of damages to neighboring properties.

That includes professional carpet cleaner, minor touch-up/paint.

I recommend you include some of your key qualification criteria in the advertisement.

There's way too much to breakdown here, but a brief synopsis; essentially the work will include, fixing old pavement, changing full concrete medians to include trees, redoing powerlines that awfully crisscross and look cluttered, adding more sidewalks, better lighting, and general cleaning up the appearance.

I always tell them that I am required to follow a process which includes an application, credit and background check.