Slow and steady still wins the race, though.

Demographically, very slow (sub 1%) population loss is fine, these things tend to rebound eventually.

CO landlords can still evict for all of the common grounds for eviction: nonpayment of rent, violation of lease terms, damage to property, disturbing the peace, health and safety violations, illegal activities etc. and can also still evict if they plan to conduct repairs or renovations, property demo or conversion, move in to the unit themselves or have a family member move in, withdraw the property from the rental market, or if the tenant refuses to sign a new lease with reasonable terms. 

I still have many years before I can retire and withdraw penalty free, but I was investigating and saw I’m able to take out a loan against my savings and could use it for a home purchase.This gives me a bit a cash to play with but wanted to check if others have considered the same?

I had one PM lined up who had major staffing issues due to COVID and would up withdrawing from their Cincinnati presence.How many units do you have them handling?

The project got off to a slow start with the building department.

The slow season is November and April, but people still rent.Hope that helps!

As for renting, going cash flow negative isn't great, and your home isn't likely to appreciate as fast as it would if it was a single family home, so holding with hopes of increasing appreciation may be a verrrry slow play, but if you can afford to hold, having a tenant pay down your mortgage is an additional great benefit to real estate investing. 

Those offers never came, one was supposed to be from an affordable housing nonprofit that had access to 4.5% financing, but they put us on ice for a few months while we waited for their slow board aproval process, and then they had some sort of organizational staffing shakeup and recently told us they couldnt put an offer in.

There is a marked slowing in the time it takes to rent a home and the overall rental market is cool now.I have not heard of a flat fee for a rental listing, but there's a couple things you can consider to help your situation.You can go back to your previous property manager and see if they would be willing to solely do the listing and lease up for you.