I have three jobs right now (realtor, contractor and i have a sales job) and am still constantly trying to generate other streams of income.

The morons (renters) must have spilled 1,000 differents things on the carpet and the pad was welded to the floor.

However, if you have a complex with a 75% occupancy level, your expenses ratio will be much higher than the 50% rule.For tenant or owner paid utilities, you could argue that when owners pay utilities, rents can be higher and offset the cost, making the 50% rule average out to correct, but most will also argue that owner paid utilities should be approached with caution as tenants have NO INCENTIVE to conserve and even when rents are adjusted higher, utility expenses can increase the 50% rule.Also, there are many other income streams which can be added to larger complexes which could affect the 50% rule so keep that in mind as well. make sure you know which income streams outside of rent/late fees are present in the complex.

Are they not vacuuming and cleaning up spills as they occur?

I'd suggest you hit the open houses in different price points and take note to appliance and fixture grades.The advantage of a drop in is in the design flow of counter space and it being seamless to the counter, spills are easily cleaned up, spill something on the side of a free standing stove means a mess and moving the stove out.

I LOVE the REI basket, but it can take TIME to develop a consistent revenue stream from REI, and part of that depends on how much you can invest into it - both marketing (if you will go directly after motivated sellers) and doing deals.

If I lose my job, no problem I got another income stream via rental cash flow.  

I'm looking to hold and rent to create a different income stream than my primary business.

Yes, it opens up other revenue streams, but I believe it would actually distract me from doing what I do best.

We limit our guests to 1 Gb of data per day - plenty for surfing the Internet, but not enough for streaming video.