@Bryan Walsh, nice way to think outside that box.You would have to shop that around, and you might want to find some private money rather than a regular HM lender. 

https://www.biggerpockets.com/store/estimating-rehab-costs-ultimate-MB

I was told that the Northwest area and the Southwest area were the highest in terms of rentability and desire for people to live at due to convenience to schools, stores, and nicer living.

If anyone wants to look at Idaho code 63-11C, that's where they want to take away the requirement that we have to pay to store an auction the tenants items.

I have a similar situation where my regular person left and I had a meeting with her replacement. 

If you're not checking in on your contractor's work regularly, who is? 

I realize there are no/low money down options and I have to be the one to grab the bull by the horns (which I'm doing to some extent by regularly taking in as much real-estate related content as possible), but I'm more just curious if anyone else has ever been in a similar situation where you felt like the clock is ticking.

So I've pretty good luck with the other option: I buy cute, inexpensive ceramic cartridge faucets off ebay or amazon or on sale at a box store-- the ceramic cartridges are relatively trouble free and when the finish is shot I"ll just get a new one.

I sent a 60-day notice certified mail and regular mail.

Does the water need to be regularly treated?