Reread what @Stuart Udis wrote.We can testify to the same challenges after 25 years in our marketplace.We also agree with @Kristian Sexton about starting with a PMC.

They could sell them to “recoup” some of the downpayment.

BRRRR method is also a great way to go - good luck!  

Book a flight from Portland to Orlando rent a hotel and car and go to the planning department and building department in person and get to the folks that were running the permit and discuss paths to completion..

Quote from @Nick Rivers: What's the best content you've found to help you learn how to underwrite these deals? 

JackieIs there any way they can go and visit the current PM and also meet the new PM, or even ask the new PM to go by the office of the current PM to see if they can see if they are still in business?

You can look on websites like https://www.corporatehousingbyowner.com/search/United-States... and https://www.furnishedfinder.com to see what similar houses are rented for.

Quote from @Simon Girmay: Hi Everyone,New to investing as I don't have any properties under my belt yet, but the goal is to have something by the middle of 2025.

I would get back to local real estate investor meetups so you can connect with locals to the area and kind of get back in the game slowly that way.

Sad truth of our current legal system, but if you go through the eviction process and he loses all this stuff, you are in the clear.