You will need boots on the ground to get a better lay of the land however. 

These little owls literally dig into the ground to make burrows for shelter. 

Typically, any lease violation can be grounds for eviction so long as your willing to go through the legal cost and process to follow through with it. 

The six tiny homes were build from the ground up to our specs.

I’m constantly taking inventory of the lenders financing ground up projects in my market which is Philadelphia. 

How do you recommend we go about getting this goal of the ground ?

People on the ground in your market should be able to give you better market advice. 

There was a fire and the house burned to the ground.

Just because you see a shiny quarter on the ground --and go to pick it up--doesn't mean there's not a gross goober stuck to the underside. 

However when I think logically about depreciating damages I use this as an example:If I built a house and rented it for 28 years without making any improvements, the tenant could burn the house to the ground and not get charged one penny because the entire house was fully depreciated down to $0.