Quote from @Elias Ramirez: Your county has public records with the name and mailing address of the owner.

However, I'm unsure which of these platforms supports specific search criteria such as non-paying tenants, code violations, absentee owners, vacancies, tax liens, deceased properties, probate, and inheritance.

( Not sure if that's the correct terminology.)Whatever loss I take in the first year against my wife's income, does doing this change my rental income from being passive to non passive income as well?

With the savings from the house hack you should be able to purchase a non-house hack home in 1-2 years. 

With strong demand and guaranteed, government-backed rent, Columbus is an excellent choice for investors seeking reliable cash flow.

You may spend thousands of non-refundable dollars to present them with deals, but there is no guarantee of approval.

I have seen him get angry at other students in his program who got publicly vocal inside his FB group about the terrible deals in the marketplace.

From an outside viewer, I would be nervous to work with either one of you, since you are fast to go public with any grievance and the realtor has poor communication skills and has no problem blaming external circumstances for lack of a simple courtesy call.

It says that up to 15% of non-real-estate property does not disqualify an exchange.

We would prefer to not sue and make the overall process as non-litigious as possible.