He would never "raid" a former writer by enticing the writer to leave that client for a writing job elsewhere.

I typically stage my homes and add some sort of feature to entice buyers over the competition.

I am planning to put them month to month and try to entice promped payments with discount as I raise the rent. 

This seems like a bad process for speculative investors, and I wonder if that's why the property has been sitting for half a year now.I plan on owning multiple properties eventually, but getting hard pulls on my credit every time isn't something that would entice me.

My policy now is to always reduce my deductible whenever I have a pending eviction that could get ugly, or if I fear an empty property might be enticing to vandals.

However, not all are enticing for your investor.

If you want them to really work you have to make the offer more enticing prior to expiration.

I'll send you over a message lets grab a coffee sometime in the next week would love to hear about your overall plan and what brokers have been the most enticing for you

The out of state investor was enticed to buy and the current cycle you are seeing came to fruition.Now, I agree with you whole-heartedly that out of state investors have no business buying cheap, run-down and economically depressed neighborhoods. 

If you are trying to entice a non-credit worthy buyer you are likely to face unnecessary issues.