We put this in our offers to differentiate ourselves from other offers and we can write off this expense as a tax deduction.

Other states depends on the language in the CCR's. 

I would be happy to connect the two of you and talk with you about my experiences with my other Canadian investors.

If they have a 100 unit property and 5 units are eviction candidates, they can leverage and hold out a bit since the other 95 units are performing.

Turn key rentals seem to be a good way to go, but I'm also trying to learn about other more passive strategies.  

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Quote from @Dan Farsht: I am looking to connect with other hard money lenders in the upper Midwest (our business is currently concentrated in the Greater Milwaukee Area). 

If not I would recommend looking up other AirBnB owners in the Covington area and simply asking them who they use. 

I would start there and think of anything that I could do to stay in the house for a while as it sounds like you would be losing a bit of money with the other options. 

I explained how it would be in their best interest to assist with the process having the house tidy, showing it for me to prospective renters, and relaying to the prospective renter how I was as a landlord.The only other thing I requested from my departing tenant was to be out of the house 4 days before the end of the month.