@Victor Menezes The agent I work with brings me deals that are in house at his agency if he thinks I might be interested as soon as they arrive.

With these three data points, you can arrive at the expected value of the property. 

I live in a humid climate (east Texas) that is also hotter than Hades.

When do you think one's passion should arrive?

Sometimes parts take time to arrive.

The letter won't arrive until Friday and I wanted to give them a heads up of this information since I'll be using Apartments.com to collect rent.

It's not my business model, but having anyone live outdoors like an animal in the USA when they hand out Section-8 to illegals upon arrival is a hard pill to swallow.They need to sort the homeless into short term vs. forever types.Steer the help to the short-term helpable when they need it, and publicly house the "more eccentric" types out in the county away from civilization.Maybe have a poor farm where they can plant gardens to feed themselves if they are able...something to keep them busy.It would give all of them someplace to live indoors at least.This street begging/tents on sidewalks thing is Un-American.Just my 2 cents

If you want to learn more about how they arrive at the "US Market" this can help.

Recently, I've seen some fix/flip opportunities be put back on the market because the originally investor doesn't want to hold the property until materials arrive on the island to finish the job.  

This story is HUGE but I'll try to keep it brief.June 2019 a woman signs a 12 month contract that says she must get electric and gas in her own name prior to move it and no one except her can occupy the unit (she breaks all 3 of those)Unknown to me - the man now squatting moves in with the former tenantJuly 20, 2020 she suddenly has a huge amount of cash and pays over 5 months back rent - never pays rent again after this dayJuly 23, 2020 booked for a crimeFeb 2020 person moves into cabin next door and somehow put wrong cabin electric meter in their nameNov, 2020 she's jailedMay 2021 my dad arrives and slowly starts realizing the scope of the problemJuly 2, 2021 I arriveJuly we get Real Estate One to be property managers starting Aug 1, REO agent meets with 2 current tenants and gets them on new contracts, REO makes a deal with squatter, he agrees, he never shows up to the REO officeAug 9 post 7 day notice due to non paymentAug 16 court house says can't because COVID, try 30 day notice to quit - post thatAug 17 hand 30 day notice to quit to squatter (had to bang on his door at 7:15a to catch him as he'd been hiding from me for 2 weeks)Aug 19 figure out squatter's cable is in the name of jailed tenant's daughter who lives 2 counties away with her legal guardian (yet Spectrum refuses to cancel service)Aug 20 figure out the electric meter mix up. next door unit moved out in June yet was still be charged electric. why?