Down the road, once I have built some wealth with my rentals, I'd like to study economic trends such as employment to decipher some patterns in economic growth. 

The down payments came from a mixture of personal savings and a private loan from my mother-in-law.In 2016 we might be moving and selling our personal home so until we do that I might be in a holding pattern for any new purchases until after we sell our home.

. $600M is a lot of money, but it's not an earth-shatteringly high number.I'm also curious about the number of people they expect to hire from outside the area versus within the area, and what effect that will have on the growth patterns.

Both were given money from the relatives.It just seems to be a pattern of non pay that's hard to break in this scenario.In our market judicial has the 6 month redemption rights but the winner at the sherrif sale can move for eviction post sale immediately do not have to let the old owners squat.

@Zach SchwarzmillerOne flooring choice for bathrooms and laundry not mentioned here is linoleum {I am referring to real linoleum here and not the incorrect use of the noun in reference to sheet vinyl}It's available in a variety of colours/patterns, is organic and naturally anti-bacterial, and lasts well.

No requests yet of my bank, paypal, etc. information, but they insist on the urgency of their situation.Anything here looking like a pattern to avoid?

(notice a pattern here?)  

(I haven't aggressively looked for "deals" but from what I've seen for the average joe that doesn't plan to spend 10k on postcards, such as myself.)I was looking at job growth/diversity, running numbers, looking at charts, patterns, etc. and thought, heck I should ask people on here.

@Dan KelleyI would assume some of your worry may be state specific, but what I've learned in KS is that if you have a well written lease, and follow the letter of the law, ie the full payment of rent has not been received by the date outlined in the lease, serve/hang the 3 day notice and do not have a pattern of accepting late or partial payments etc, then even if they did make a partial payment there really should be no issue to worry about.  

If the initial scoring is middle of the road, put it in a holding pattern and concentrate on the strongest applicants.