After paying a competitive rate for the property management and ASSET management that the small operator does himself.  

Absolutely man, I’ve got a small group of people I know personally who are ready to roll.

I am also interested in looking to buy small active property management business with few contracts already in place.

If you forget, you face massive fines.In a small partnership, you might be redoing this paperwork quite frequently. 

From what I can tell, it seems like most of the very small towns in this area; tons of trailers, single family homes, no visible high rises or larger multifamily that I saw. 

It sounds like you are running a small management company for STRs?

Oregon is small enough that they will enforce once they have a law to enforce..

The garage does have electric ran with a small meter base.

It might be worth talking to a lawyer but not sure if it's small claims or worth it.Also, you might already have all of these things but for future prevention:- smart thermostat (so you receive alerts when the inside temperature dips below whatever preset you have)- Minut (or similar device) would also alert you to the inside (and outside) temperatures; for example, I have 2 devices inside the house and outside on the hot tub deck.

While a small (very small) portion of real estate investors who enroll in any course, succeed, the few successful students are used to draw in other students who likely will not succeed.