@Ralph Poirier do you find student rentals are destroyed more than rentals to working individuals?

They can let the house go into foreclosure and destroy their credit.Or, option 5: They can sell to me for what they owe.

Trusting someone who’s under qualified or has malicious intent can stall—or even destroy—your business.While that’s scary, it’s no reason to bury your head in the sand and stay a solopreneur forever.The smart thing to do?

I am more looking at it as that most of the others have been torn down or destroyed (hurricanes, structural damage, etc.) and these are the ones that happen to be left.  

That's got potential to help investors long term.Chicago Renters Can't Afford Rahm's Property Tax Hike, Landlords SayBrian - I think a concern those of us owning in gentrified areas should have is that if this tax hike destroys property values in non-gentrified areas, then City revenue collections will fall in those non-gentrified areas (think pockets of Chicago like Detroit). 

The credit check will also let you see if someone owes money to previous landlords and such, which could indicate that the destroyed the place.

Annihilate all competition not by destroying them, but by completely outdoing and out performing them.GET A WEBSITE!

Look at this linkhttps://www.nps.gov/nr/regulations.htm#6015 specifically sec. 60.15a) Grounds for removing properties from the National Register are as follows: (1) The property has ceased to meet the criteria for listing in the National Register because the qualities which caused it to be originally listed have been lost or destroyed, or such qualities were lost subsequent to nomination and prior to listing;Sounds like yours fits this criteria.

(completely destroyed properties, put holes in walls, violated leases etc). 

After Katrina destroyed New Orleans, I hoped to buy property there.