At 24 units, you must have enough NOI headroom to engage a professional property management company to handle repairs, notices, complaints, lease renewals, inspections, etc.A great PM will have all the systems and documentation necessary to train these tenants and make your MFH run like a top.Someone is going to get managed in this scenario: You get to decide whether it will be these tenants or YOU!

These animals can cost thousands or tens of thousands of dollars because they are professionally trained.

I have a very old set of work books called MPG back from my days in corporate America, It was probably the most useful training class I ever took. 

Every area is different when it comes to transfer taxes, stamps, recording fees etc.Only negotiable items would commissions on the buy side and lenders fees but those all depend on your strength as a borrower, size of property, market demand etc.  

Let me say up front that I'm not an attorney and I'm not giving you legal advice.Yes, we have recorded seller calls for training purposes, but we did so in Georgia, where only one party is required to give consent to record.

I have a friend that was a Superhost on AirBnB, managing only 3 to 4 properties for an out of town owner, and there were often times where she was driving from Asheville to Swananoa and Blk Mtn to clean properties when her cleaning staff - hired by her, trained by her - failed to show up.

What I like about Fresno is that the crime rate is slowly going down[1], that its a large city with potential for opportunity, that the city is investing in cleaning up the downtown Fresno area through a revitalization program[2])What I would hope for with the bullet train from Fresno-Bakersfields is new job and growth opportunities in both cities through more mobility, which would eventually translate into more real estate opportunities.I agree that the parts of the plan they took out which would have connected Central Valley with San Francisco and LA would have brought the most opportunity, but I am somewhat hopeful that if they show some progress and ROI in the reduced scope, that the other plans could get picked back up at some point.[1]https://abc30.com/fresno-crime-rates-drop/3599901/[2]https://revitalization.org/article/fresno-ca-shifts-decades-dumb-sprawl-smart-downtown-revitalization/

I have trained up quite a few folks in WHSE offices, and here is how it works. 

I'm an architect by training with pretty robust construction experience.  

Spell it out to him that you have been working with him on a number of issues but the gravy train has ended.