The trend in larger cities has been for less police and more leniency with criminals.

I am doing this completely remotely, which has been a massive pain/lesson learned (topic for another day).I signed a very high-level agreement (i.e. expectations simply say "drywall and paint") with him for drywall and paint work at my home for a total of $10KI have paid $5K as a down payment as well as ~$2K in materials over time, as neededThere have been multiple break-in's in the home, and he has done me favors of working with the police, and boarding things up.

The officer then states he will have to take you to the police station.  

He ended up at the UPS store (where all our mail goes) and they had to call the police.

I would suggest everyone one of us who has been scammed file a police report. 

This is the name of a Cape Coral police department detective investigating BlackTip and Beattie Development.This website will not let me plate the telephone number or email address, but let’s try it this way.Detective CorreaTwo Three NineTwo Four TwoThree Seven One Fourjcorrea at capecoral dot gov

The police did not arrest her the 1st time.

I've had to get rid 3 people for non-payment this year but in my area rooming houses are run like a hotel so we can just tell them to leave and/or call the police if they don't want to go nicely.

Smoking in units, people not on the lease staying there, police called for various reasons, etc...- Almost impossible to get any kind of unit damage paid for beyond what you have in a security deposit The rest of your statements about the homes needing a ton of work, contractors costing the same, and dealing with properties that are very tough to force appreciate are spot on.I personally do not invest in Section 8 housing anymore because they are normally cash flow purchases.  

We've decided to work with a tow company as well as post the correct tow and no trespass signage (and work with police re non-vehicular trespass).