I don't care how good the returns look on paper, I always tell my clients that if they won't let the appraiser in and the inspector in to look at the property, then that is a red flag and don't even buy the property because the tenant is telegraphing to you how much of a pain they are.Just my 2 cents. 

(and this coming from someone that doesn't even like agents... but I feel their pain when it comes to working with first time buying investors) 

It is cleaner, more efficient and you avoid delivery which can be a pain if they forget to deliver.

Additionally ask for proof of rental deposits to verify that their pain.

This is a challenge, especially when they have a tendency to screw up lease renewals and not even follow-up with either the tenant or the owner.All in all, the experience with Great Jones has been very painful. 

"That's not to belittle the very real pain that a lot of people did go through, but for the most part, the pandemic was a shorter headwind, economically, than a lot of people were thinking."

South central Idaho housing shortage is beyond painful. 

There are a lot of compliance items, including reporting, inspections, racial quotas, low-income employee quotas, requiring tax returns of low-income contractors, affirmative marketing requirements, evictions only for repeated violations and good cause, no waiver of jury trials, environmental oversight, etc.A lot of these local and federal compliance requirements are a real pain. 

Also, California tenant laws are not the most friendly to landlords, so it could be a pain to get the tenant to move if they don't feel like cooperating.  

And now they’re passing that pain onto homeowners in the form of higher property taxes.