What do you see as current opportunities and threats in regards to today's economic climate and RE investing? 

And, as they are now waking up to the very real threat STR poses, they are also waking to the reality this is a "Uber" type threat, and they have seen that story play out which only amp's up there "war efforts" to not just beat STR, but that they must completely stamp out it's very existence. 

After reading about a few landlords having screening problems, threats,   and recent anti-landlord gotchas and pitfalls that landlords are experiencing (in various states) when advertising for a tenant, I was wondering.....

I had heard that since they were a threat to the neighborhood and not chained up, someone in the neighborhood had to pick them up and drop them off at a shelter to solve this issue.

If they decline at least this limits their potential damages moving forward since they willfully chose to remain in the house and therefore did not see the mold as a significant threat. 

One of the biggest things new investors ignore is risk management, yet it represents, by far, the most significant threat to your financial health if you ignore it. 

Unfortunately threat of eviction is probably necessary to shock them into action.

This could allow the tenant to become relaxed with no threat of eviction and could resort to unfavorable hobbies- such as drug and/or alcohol use.

@Lynnette E. there is no saying if she takes the gun everywhere but if someone had complained about the threats with a gun the police could have taken action specific to the gun  prior to eviction. 

I have about a 10 years of experience in the security analysis (cyber and stocks---what a combo) and want to diversify into real estate.