The investors who keep learning, adapting, and taking measured action are the ones creating options for themselves, even in a challenging housing market.So true!

Sounds like you didn't:1) Screen the PMC properly to understand the services they provide and don't provide.2) Ask enough questions about their standard procedures, to see how they met your expectations.3) Ask for enough ongoing & proper updates, so you understood if they were following their own standard procedures or cutting corners.4) Understand the market well enough to adapt 1-3 above to that market.Glad you took the trip there to address some of the issues above. 

We have 3 color-schemes, that we can adapt to most existing schemes.Same goes for flooring: we try to save hardwood whenver possible, otherwise LVP, last carpet. 

Welcome, David.Sounds like you bring a wealth of real-world experience, especially in flex and adaptive office strategies, huge value in today’s shifting market.

And adapted with the economy.  

I’ve spent 21 years teaching, so learning, adapting, and staying disciplined are second nature to me.

A property to be torn down or re-adapt the use to something else7.

Most experienced hosts are adapting by focusing on fully permitted, regulation-friendly areas, shifting toward mid-term rentals, or buying in STR-by-right zones where cities explicitly allow them.The “safer” markets today are places with long-standing, well-defined STR ordinances—often smaller vacation towns or jurisdictions that rely on tourism.

In all things in life, if you're not adapting, you're stagnant.

That way, your tenants have to install a 3-prong adapter, so anything that goes wrong due to no grounding is entirely on them, but the 2-prong outlets are less tenant friendly.Inserting GFCIs into the circuit with the "not grounded" label may provide some additional protection, but it still is not grounded.I recommend checking to see what it would take to actually ground the circuits.