I’m sure your contract did Not require seller to repair any vacant unit or clean it and leave it in rentable shape....just because you didn’t anticipate this doesn’t mean he has to do this.

Your degree and job in your field, while half the twenty-something-year-olds are out there are still "finding themselves" puts you lightyears ahead of your peers.Your current job will open up faster than you anticipate.

I certainly anticipate an eviction when the time comes to work on the house, and raise the rent (that time is not now for me) however I am not intimidated about the process as I have been present for many evictions in the past while working with my brothers property preservation company.

So I'm anticipating Snohomish county to be fairly safe. 

But rarely do I see anything on the anticipations of purchase 3, 4, or 5.

More people will be renting well into the future, even once they have families - recently read a Wall Street Journal piece that some bigger institutional investors are planning on acquiring lots of single family's in good markets like Florida, Texas, Arizona, because they anticipate plenty of relatively affluent folks (millennial mainly it seems), renting well into the future.

Is it because the scope was not complete, and additional work beyond the original contract had to be performed, or was the work was just more difficult that the contractor anticipated?  

Wow...just signed up with them in anticipation of using them when I fill my 2 current vacancies.....I had looked at Cozy also, but it looked very basic for customized options and accepts partial rent payments, which I don't like at all....

Plus, if you anticipate raising rent, month to month will allow you to do that.

They're not sitting on the sidelines in anticipation of a downturn, but they're closing fewer deals (on a percentage basis) as a result of being prudent investors.