Meet with the PM and their staff, even if it’s virtual.

Unfortunately, it's near impossible to find anything over 10% cap rate and 10-20% CoC return... even in the midwest, you won't find anything like that.

Hi @Katie Lyon,Properties are typically still selling in Cape Coral right now to active buyers, even with elevated inventory.

Those failures are  more negligent than a PM allowing a guest who paid with expectation to stay at the house to remain there in the middle of winter when they arrived on a Friday evening as you described.For now you will have to rely upon insurance, I don't believe the PM acted unreasonably given the circumstances.

Even in your area, you may meet other out of state investors so you have more context for when you talk to the people who will make up your team there.

Even if one has to provide the education to some of the parties as to why a particular creative solution makes a win-win-win for all. 

The idea is simple: purchase a property, live in one part, and rent out the rest to offset your mortgage or even generate profit.

This will simply causes prices to be even higher, and continue to constrict demand... 

If he does pay, then you can just  cancel it but if he does not, you haven't wasted more time and have delayed the eviction process even longer. 

Even though we live in earthquake country, this was a new experience for us.