And here at least, they tend to leave a lot of wreckage and garbage behind if unhappy.OTOH, Can you do it and still buy SFRs?

Unless  this is the only applicant you expect to see throw his application in the garbage.

I still have a duplex in Columbia, MO that I self-manage from PA and while living in Columbia I quickly learned most of their PMs were hot garbage (my duplex is in a neighborhood consisting ONLY of duplexes and many were managed by PMs); that's typically how it is in most markets.

Unfortunately for the last few months I’ve been searching most of the property’s numbers don’t seem to work out in my head (not sure if I’m having great expectations due to my first deal going so well) I just saw a triplex in an area I wouldn’t wanna live in for $390,000 with rents at $750, or 2250 total, the mortgage with 100k down would be just over 2000 bucks, add water sewer and garbage on it and you have a solid loss, plus with rent control passing earlier this year it would take about 2-3 years to clean the place up and get rents to where it’s making enough money to be worth while. 

I had  business partner who sold his garbage company to Waste management for ALOT of money like what your talking about here.. and thats exactly what he did double tax free muni'sOne of his favorite things to do was when some stock broker or other person wanted to talk about investments he would drop that pearl.. and they would say what the HECK  your not making much return.. 

Dear BP,We are in the process of researching an electrical upgrade for a 1950 apartment building with 8 one bedrooms and 2 studios, taking into account the following:We have no dishwashers or garbage disposals and won't install any,Stoves, ovens and heaters are gas,We are in Southern California,In one bedrooms: 10,000 BTU a/c for living room and 6,000 BTU for bedroom,Central water heater is gas,We'd like 2 electric vehicle chargers connected to house circuit (currently only has LED lights on it),We have no washers/dryers currently but might get one of each or a pair in the future,Our insurance company states each unit should have 150 amps.How many amps should we put in the main breaker?  

stores were run down, garbage in the streets, ect.

Be wary though, there are substandard builders selling garbage at the same price.

Water, snow, lawn, are covered by the land lord, sewer and garbage are included in taxes. 

At that point you get go back to marketable securities (retail garbage) and live pretty comfortably flying first class.For me its transitioning to stabilized lighter value add apartments as a LP (letting the young proven operators work for me) and NNN, and non correlated investments like infinite banking, life settlements, and IULs.