I'd simply let them know that you are not going to renew their lease.

I simply budget 5% for capital expenses and 5% another 5% for maintenance and work with the money that accumulates in that pot.

Without coaches, without gurus, without any other resources, they simply saved some money, bought a property, managed it as best they could, and held it for 30+ years. 

Financial freedom goes far beyond simply replacing your current income.

If you can’t identify this in the building code it only weakens your case. 

My guess is they simply cleaned the entire unit. 

We will simply look these folks up by name on the PVA.

You need to buy, rehab, rent, manage, refinance if the numbers make sense, don't if they don't, repeat if you identify the right property and if you have the capacity to properly manage, and maintain external sources of cashflow to really get it going. 

There is a lot of new development moving south and west of Notre Dame.As for the specific neighborhoods - I think you can simply refer to the Trulia crime map as it tends to be pretty accurate.

If you identify more than one property but want to only purchase one of them then you can identify that as such on your 45 day list and  have all of your proceeds sent to the closing of the purchase.