I paid for new floors out of pocket in May 2018 and am still out of pocket and on the hook with the credit card company  I told them I will not drop the matter no matter what they try. 

I own another house, it was a live in flip, I bought it when I was 20 years old and my father co-signed because of my lack of credit. 

Who knows if they placed a tenant with evictions / bad credit in your property.Overall the turnkey model is for “mailbox money” and you’ve chosen a hands off approach where they’re not going to call or email you if your tenant is late on rent.

Track expenses and income separately, as well as your time.

I believe I have wasted approximately 8 hours waiting for no one to show and not answer phone calls. 2-Those they do show up want to ask me to work with the deposit and do it in payments,which I will work with, and then they find out I perform credit and background checks via Cozy.co and they run like a scalded ape because "I cant afford a $39 credit check and background check."

And how are you tracking that activity?

I also think that those "outside factors you have no control over" that contribute to a neighborhood improving have been a guessing game, but are actually able to be tracked because of advances in technology over the past couple of years. 

But AirBNB is free, other than the 3% credit card charge which you cannot escape no matter where you get guests.At the end of the day, having two listing companies is no more work than one.

VA IRRRL will have the lowest rate on a VA loan simply because they are the cheapest to originate... no appraisal, no income calc, etc, these are as close to no doc loans as you can get in 2018, and it's still a VA loan backed by the full faith and credit of the US Gov't, meaning close zero risk for the lender. 

Most buyer agents will bargain for repairs or reducing the purchase price / seller credits after defects are found.