Keeping that in mind I have to be very strict and unforgiving and can't allow myself or my business to be personally involved in my tenants lives.Being socially responsible to me means keeping my units clean and functional and at a rent that is market rate and fair.

I'm not saying you should make your own out of computer paper and a Sharpie, but your business card also doesn't need to have a pop-up photo of yourself and play a jingle and also function as a bottle-opener.

I believe it'll pass appraisal for the VA loan, but it's not very functional to maximize potential rents.

Initial rent numbers are $2,585.00 * 1.1 = $2,843.50Now let's get your monthly NOI:Taxes: $77Insurance: $2000 Annual = $167 / month10% Maintenance: $28410% CapEx: $28410% Management: $2848% Vacancies: $227Utilities: $83 (just in case)NOI = $2843.50 - All of that = $1437.50Your desired cash flow is $150 * 5 = $750, which means you can have a loan payment of $687.50 per month.Fun fact of the day: Excel has a function that will give you the loan amount based on the interest rate divided by 12, the length of the loan in months, and the monthly payment.

Ignore the ceiling heights since the building functions fine as is.

It's a function of how the house sells or appraises and the debt associated with the property.In your example, you purchased a house that appraised at $100k using a $80k loan.If the house then appraises at $130k and you still owe $80k, your equity is now $50k.However, this is entirely theoretical until you try to do something with it, wether that is a HELOC or a refinance.Let's say you refinance at an evaluation of $130k and get an 80% loan to value like your original loan.

My question is, is this a function of my submarket, region or SFHs in general?

google spreadsheets has importhtml and importxml functions that do this very thing.  

I call BS because my roof faces the same "hail storms" and is functioning just fine.My question is, does anyone use this to their advantage on investment properties they own?

It will function the same way, but sometimes you'll get an upper hand because the listing has to go into the MLS first before it drips into the 3rd party sites.