This is common practice as they get you in their doors with a free seminar, then you are pitched some education program for several hundred to several thousand, then the upsell to the “insiders club” for tens of thousands.

Generally speaking newer homes will require less maintenance.

.-5% Maintenance and Capex - realistically, this is too low.

Scope-The International Property Maintenance Code (IPMC) is a model code that regulates the minimum maintenance requirements for existing buildings.

Telling them my husband was extremely allergic to cats and would not be able to enter the unit for repairs or maintenance seemed to finally get through to them that I really wasn't going to give them an application.      

I wrote a BiggerPockets blog post about how to find comps and calculate ARV, hope it comes in handy:https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/8814/68395-how-to-find-real-estate-comps-and-calculate-after-repair-valueI've also written about how to estimate repair costs:https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/8814/72452-how-to-estimate-construction-costs-for-these-29-common-rehab-projects

Those occasions all had one thing in common. 

Is that kind of option commonly available?

Think of all the things that could go wrong and see if the lease addresses them: unauthorized pets or tenants, early termination, security deposit, lease violations, late rent, eviction, lawn maintenance, parking, etc.5.

I'd rather earn a little less but have common-sense laws.