I have chosen to spend the rest of my professional life teaching Financial Literacy, pro forma modeling, and ground-up development.Please tell me a bit about yourself, and feel free to reach out to me if I can ever be of any assistance to you Bart.

You’re problem is either advertising (bad locations to advertise chosen or bad text/pictures) or price, you can only fix one without changing PMs. 

Hence the reason he's chosen to be a D Class area landlord.If that sounds like you and it sounds like fun, go for it!

The only thing you can do is review the dwelling and contents coverage on the policy, also review the deductible that you have chosen and possibly make some changes to those areas to help reduce your premium.

@Sean Wilt pricing strategies and human nature have been studied for years.

This is assuming you do not have some major disaster(natural or human caused) occur in the next few years. 

If so and it didn't sell, it is into the REO back cycle of the process and they will just wait for it get listed by their chosen REO broker.

EquityBuild  is obviously made up of humans and run by human beings, who are not perfect, but I find them to be honorable and conscientious in how they do business, and out of the 40+ clients I have currently,  none of them have of lost any money, and all are being paid regularly.

I have a couple that I can suggest for you if you haven't chosen anyone yet.

So, while it may be interesting for conversation purposes, on small properties, Cap Rate is about as useful as the human appendix.As you pointed out, on commercial properties, including apartments, are valued based on the income approach.