Stay close to the train lines and keep your eye on new developments. 

What sort of training program(s) would be most advantageous—and do such programs offer job placement?

Another house being only a few blocks away might be a good comp, but it might not be in the neighborhood is completely different or near things that can raise or lower their value (schools, train tracks, airports, parks, shopping, etc.) 

There is zero training or verification required to get a pet labeled as an ESA.

I trained her. 

The training has been tremendous and after a few months doing it I feel like I already have a ton of knowledge of my local real estate market, that's not to say I don't still have plenty to learn, but the progress has been awesome.

Get rid of them, clean the places up, put them back on the market at current market rates, and find well-screened tenants to place under your lease with your rules.Any attempt to "train" the tenant to your policies will be seen as an intrusion and they will resent you.

The majority of the time they are a major time suck that doesn't lead anywhere, especially if the agent isn't equipped to handle what they need, or at least think they need.What she needs to do is get some training under her belt and come up with what exactly it is she wants to do in the business.

My climbing partner got pretty upset when I was scraping glue off my abused hardwood floors instead of training.

My climbing partner got pretty upset when I was scraping glue off my abused hardwood floors instead of training.