It is not difficult to serve a deadbeat tenant; there are numerous tricks to get a tenant's new address (some discussed on BP) if you have done your due diligence upon on boarding and collected enough data on this person during that process. 

Now you have not had to set up a account with the local water board and pay a turn on fee.

It was made of wood (real wood, not wood look cement board) and was for around $180 a month for 3 years.

Of those that stick around, 80% of them only sell 20% of the homes and the average income for an agent is less than the average income in America...and that's before deducting expenses like fuel, marketing, office fees, licensing fees, board fees, etc.

Albeit there maybe a few that are willing to I am on board with @Joe Villeneuve why not do a mortgage?  

And more recently we boarded the window to keep the pipes from freezing and added a vent to the outside (so it was up to code).

Rezoning infront of the zoning board is likely 12+ months at this point.

One of them is on board the other is going to take some selling.

Then MEH, there could be a hundred reasons from the verbiage never transferred across some internet site, to the listing agent forgetting to add it, to the guy having not done anything with his license in years and just remembered he has been paying the $50 every two years to renew it with the state, but hasn't belonged to the board in years.

I appreciate the feedback and am back to the drawing board looking for a multi family....