The Cowboy roping is from Banana Bank Lodge where I stayed this trip.Having breakfast at the lodge and this parrot flew in. 

I would skip all of the agents and go direct.

Start marketing and skip tracing the owners that live the farthest away because that is your best pitch since they are paying to manage.

I guess it has to be fully paid back within 5 years from the distribution so you basically skip the first payment.)I vote that @Dave Meyer does a quick upgrade to the rental property calculator to include scenarios with simultaneous loans!

Skip Elmira.

Check county recordsUse online search tools like PropStream, Reonomy, PropertyShark, etc.Use local GIS mapping tools (ask your county)Search online directories for LLC or TrustTalk to neighborsHire a skip tracerSend a letter to the propertyThere are a lot of options.

I notice you skip right over who does the clean up, Jim, and who has to approve building in areas that aren’t defensible.I also see that now you admit that your fairy-dust belief that people “will” work with insurance companies to clean up is not necessarily true.

Without house hacking, your figures would look like this:$1850+1850 = $3700 - $1500 - $3200 = $-1000 net in your pocket (let's skip principal paydown and tax benefits for now).With house hacking, your figures would look like this:$1850+650+1500 = $4000 - $3200 = $800 net in your pocket. 

Tenants ended up demanding concessions or just plain skipped out of their lease and disappeared.Also, unbeknownst to us, the former owner tried poaching all of the month to month tenants to their building across the street.

Damage after deposit, legal charge, skip out, unpaid utilities lists go forever.... and of course eviction process takes at least 60~90 days here while lawyers are asking $600 to just start with the case.