I don't know how you could have that much energy between full time job and all these deals going on.

One could argue that minimal property management roles such as placing advertising, screening tenants and things of that nature fall into this category, and there is a lot of support for that within the tax community  You clearly cannot compensate yourself for such activities, and you would not want to end up in a situation where a significant amount of time and energy goes into these activities or you could be viewed as providing services to the plan.  

Young people consume lots of hot water.We have a 5-bdrm student house which has undergone a significant energy efficiency retrofit ... but ~50% of the monthly electrical consumption is hot water.

I have one rental in Austin but as you said Austin is a bit pricey at the moment so I'm focusing my energy in Columbus.

You must generate leads to succeed.

Right now I find it hard to pull the trigger on potential deals that costs 500k and generates 5k in rents.

Look at all the activity you've generated and I’m sure many have not yet seen or had time to chime in.

Could be a good opportunity to solve a huge problem for more and more of the baby boomer generation needing healthcare subsidy through Medicaid.

My friend is pretty big time and I think he parks his money in this way so he can get some kind of return.Newbies usually don't have the cash to park in something that can generate a low return like this.

I looked up some ozone generators for residential that are about $400.