Either we manage tenants or we manage the manager but we have to watch out for ourself one way or another.  2 months seems excessive and I can get all these things done in a couple weeks unless you are waiting for something specific for the HVAC that is on backorder. 

However, two months after she purchased the home, road construction on a major nearby street detoured traffic through her neighborhood, causing excessive noise.

I guess you could argue that if someone can't find a house to buy, they have the down payment money (if they were to put 20% down) to pay for rent, but without an increase in wages/jobs, and inflation currently eating away at that money, that well would run dry at some point.

I think of every night as either 100% occupancy or 0% and we don’t want 0% unless it’s for upgrades repairs or for a deep cleaning we can’t get in the normal turnover window for some reason like it takes time for carpets to dry or we ozone the whole house.

It will take a very heavy solution of the stuff and it will take time for the floor to dry out.Now we get to the difficult part.

2) It doesn't work because the second you stop doing DMM cold calling etc. etc, your leads dry out.

Randy,you can certainly get coverage in the Excess/Surplus lines. 

One benefit you might get is a tax advantage if you have good w2 earnings, that the excess depreciation could lower your tax liability, but again, this is a modest benefit.

Put in insulation and replaced wall boards with dry wall.

This isn’t so cut and dry.