It takes less than 5 minutes to google most expensive rental markets versus rent control markets, or average rent before rent control and after.

Accomplished the goal of saving me money, as well as, entering the world of LTR in a way where systems can be established and learning happen in a small controlled way before embarking on bigger investments and using OPM.

Then, you can either try to manage it yourself, or hire a property management company, but expect to give the property management company a big chunk of your profit and expect their will be a lot of inefficiencies when you have a property management company vs. being hands-on where you have much better control and don't have to pay someone to make mistakes on your behalf.

Rent control?

But rather than let it control me, I listened to it.

It is seems to be an effective way of controlling people. 

@Ryan Maguire water in basements in the Midwest is almost a given unless you take steps to control it...what you are describing is a freak event...the sewer system was overwhelmed...getting 5in rain in this part of the country usually only happens from hurricanes from the Gulf...Sounds like you got it sorted...could have been worse

No-gi is a blast for me, but in the gi, I didn't know that it was possible to be controlled by your opponent in so many different ways.

Ideally, I'm able to control the deal for an amount equal to about one month's rent. 

I just got a part time job offer to help keep steady income while I dive into this new venture.