Slowed the selling process but the profit was slim but did put a renter in place for 4 months so overall hit the 30% ROI goal.

I know that area moderately well, it is blue collar with slim pickings for rentals...

5.6% cap rate without property management built in is a bit slim for me..... 

I finally went through my first eviction, and knew up-front it was only going to cost me more to file, considering the chances of collecting after a judgement are slim to none (plus I still needed the court to get them physically out).

don't do anything....get situated with your new job and city.  25k is an emergency fund living in san diego...just keep saving and reading...re think it in a year.....wet blanket I know but 25k is slim.

The numbers have been working for a number of years however, the spreads have been compressing and as such, the profits have been more slim than in years past.It is all about the numbers.

There's a lot of what L&I does that interfaces with other departments and you'll get a lot of answers to questions like "That's not my job" So for you to actually figure out what you need to do will require your own sleuthing because odds of someone actually helping you are slim to none. 

If you dont have the knowledge or ability to help these homeowners in the slim time frame they provide you then the best thing you can do is not work with them.

@Maxine Kunimura the chance of them actually getting the work, is very very slim.

I've used HML for fix and flip projects and let's just say the margin for error is very slim.