My advice if you wanted to tackle this on your own would be to look at competitors that are performing really well and just noting down some of what they’re doing and try incorporating that to a degree.

Cons- Relatively expensive (a good value is a .9%er), tenant-friendly laws, not a college or military town, wildfire smoke late summers. 

Also, I wanted to bring a more financially stable resident into the building who, in theory, would be in a better position to pump money into local businesses vs. the average apartment renting college student or younger professional.With the current Corona-lull, I have some time to go back over the concepts and numbers and I'm wondering what other investors opinions are in the apartment vs condo battle.

I am currently a college student, and I would most likely want to live with young professionals when it is time for me to pull the trigger.

These pain points would be for someone like me, that is used to Multi-family and is self taught real estate but has business degree and previous non-RE business experience, so I have some business skills, but, zero commercial RE.as previously mentioned, vacancy or turnover is much longer time frames...I can usually have someone in one of my apartments within a few days of the place be vacated.

When we purchased, we renovated hone to a large degree, and since this was about 10 months ago - it remains in very good shape.  

It's a little tough to answer, as some areas are great for college rentals, but some people don't want that type of tenant.Oneida County has strong rentals. 

I personally like centrally-located B-class properties, close to downtowns/hospitals/colleges/etc.

Then put together a business plan and resume with anything that shows experience (even if not in real estate; college, previous job, RE books read, etc.).

Usually about a 20 degree difference from ambient is the best any system can accomplish.