Our model is to find urban buildings with unmet self storage demand, and bring them back to life. 

One thing remains true - there's strong rental demand across the classes so long as you're in a location that is suitable for renting.

Bridgeport and Mckinley are great as cheaper and if you rent bedroom its strong demand with college students.

Tips for confirming rental market demand?

Of course location, supply and demand all come into play as well.  

(or call you so they can demo next time it happens if they can't make it happen on demand)3) Adjust place as needed for legitimate placement issues.4) If failure to keep smoke detectors working is a breech of your lease then do a formal notice to cure as required by your state just to have it on record. 

However I’m also interested potentially becoming a real estate agent and general investor in case the pilot thing doesn’t work out (mostly because if I ever lost my medical in 20 years, that stem degree wouldn’t be as useful).

If YOUR driveway is encroaching on the property of the apartment complex then the new owner has every right to demand you remove it or agree to some sort of settlement. 

In Washington we have a major shortage of inventory which equates to strong demand and higher prices. 

You can get the stats from the  CDC here:https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/...The CDC flu estimates for the 2019-2020 flu season between October 1st 2019 through Feb 15, 2020 looks like this:29 - 41 million flu illnesses13 - 19 million flu medical visits280k-500k flu hospitalizations16k-41k flu deathsSo that is 16,000 - 41,000 flu deaths in just the USA in 4.5 months.These stats fluctuate every year depending on how bad the flu strains are in any given year.