i see two options here 1) you can go back to dad and break it down as hey i cant close on the house until it's vacant and see if he can help in getting them out, 2) offer some moving expense if the lot is really that desirable to you I know not what you want to hear as the investor but it has worked on numerous occasions, 3) you will have to take it to the courts as final resolution so the sheriff can remove them.

I was wondering if anyone had ideas of research questions that would be helpful/relevant for people currently working in this field.

They met with numerous others including PM companies.

Kent is the patriarch of the family and founder of the business and clearly a very actively engaged company principal.When Kent saw that one of his clients was in the office, he came over, introduced himself, and then started asking the kinds of questions that I was very happy to field: "What can we do better?"

I'm very hesitant to get rid of the house for numerous reasons that I stated in my last reply but also that rate. 

If I knew I had a violent sex offender as a tenant, I would feel that I have not provided the safe home to my other tenants.It is my opinion that a violent sex offender should not be in a multiplex, near schools, children clubs/sports (Y, Little League, soccer fields, etc.), etc.. 

I am new to Real Estate investing, but I know this is a field I am highly interested in after college.

Allow for inputting of MLS number, which could then use an API to pull in all of the relevant data to auto-populate the fields in the calculator. 

I is good to hear I wasn‘t In left fIeld on that analylsIs.

I have been analyzing deals and see numerous examples where it does not make since to move forward on purchases, but somehow people are still making excessive offers.