You can rent long term, but short term rentals would be hit or miss. do some homework on that market.

Second, I'd like to know any specific marketing tactics and methods to screen potential renters.

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

Welcome to the Pittsburgh market!

In the VAST majority of good rental markets function is MUCH more important than form (aesthetics).

It opened doors to new markets for agricultural products such as cotton, sugar, and grains, laying the foundation for prosperous farming and trade economies across the newly acquired territories.Investors keen on infrastructure development saw potential in establishing trade routes, settlements, and towns that would eventually grow into thriving cities.

Marketing it as an MTR might be a good alternative so long as Sacramento doesn't also regulate MTRs.

My thinking is the storage unit at 2600 mo is much more wiser than 54k in the money market at 5.2 %. 

I've been hearing a ton lately about the issues in the Florida real estate market.

What this narrow group of investors have in common though is they know the market well because they lived there for a couple years.