Demand is very high, both for rentals as well as for sale and this is probably not going to change.

Our tenant would have a key and could assist people in through that entrance if needed.We closed, and at closing the developer signed a contract to install a door and escrowed $20,000 in the event they did not end up doing it. 

If I were you, I'd ask for where the squatters ended up and get their address too.

Quote from @Kyle Harris: I'm a new investor and looking to learn as much as I can this year and hopefully make a purchase on a multifamily unit by the end of 2025.

Most deals I work, I find that the most inexperienced party in a real estate transaction will end up losing 4-10% of the value of the home in the transaction because they don't know what they are doing. 

For those who are highly disorganized, I sometimes advise them to have a separate account for each property, depending on the scenario.  

Since it was over 12 months with my HML, I ended up taking the property under my name with a 30-year conventional loan.

There are numerous threads about sub to and many investors believe it is a high risk strategy (especially for seller) and believe buyers who use it “take advantage” of naive sellers.  

Urban living is a jungle and if I only heard footsteps, I would suspect the world had come to an end.  

The Real Estate Guys do a great newsletter with lots of high-level information about the economy and how it impacts real estate.