Once I had to feed the kid an entire box of fruit snacks to keep him from rummaging through the current tenant’s belongings.

That's where the fruit is.- Will Rodgers

Averaging 35 years of salary makes any few years salary pretty much inconsequential.He should at least be told to look at what basket he is putting his eggs in and see how it works.

The low hanging fruit tends to be basements- so you’re looking for the components of a dwelling space, which include:- minimum 6’ 8” ceilings, 6’4” under beams and HVAC . 7’ ideally.

Show her that you'll contain the risk and not put all the eggs in one basket.

There's usually enough lower hanging fruit for them to go after instead of having to go through the approval process just to have the unit not pass for one big reason or another.

Before people on this board started making gift baskets for new leasee's and calling them customers instead of tenants.Pivot?

Putting all your eggs in a real estate basket at 20 might not be a good move. 

Never invest in any location with rent control.Inflation compensating - Every time you go to the store, the same basket of goods costs more and more dollars.

If the property is at its peak value  and you think rents will not go up significantly in the next few years and your only thing that can go right is interest rates come down - you are putting all your eggs in that basket.