Either way buying it and having on site will save you time and labor costs provided it fits the space and works with the existing drain. 

We don't have a date picked out yet, but it will be in August.

Skip Tracing, you can use Whitepages.com or any number of other sites to look up the owner's info and you can call them on the phone.3.

I'm surprised SF doesn't have something similar where you enter the move in and move out dates and the amount of the deposit. 

You also much report the lease termination to the housing authority.If she stays past the lease due date, you will need to evict her.

Probably just hold on to the ground and sell as a shovel ready site.

If you feel your CPA may not be fully up to date on certain aspects of your particular tax situation, especially with multi-state holdings, consulting another professional can offer fresh insights or alternative strategies.

I think there are some sites that let you post land to camp on (i.e. tents).I'm not sure what the weather is like there as the only thing I know about new mexico is what I saw from breaking bad. :-)   But you might want to even consider putting up a yurt (glorified commercial tents that are relatively cheap) and furnishing it and then renting the place out on airbnb.Is there good fishing on that river?

I'll just add, that if you've done these types of deals or similar deals before, having accurate and up-to-date financials (aka bookkeeping records) for those previous deals to be able to analyze the numbers would be a great tool to use to make informed decisions about future deals.And, even if you haven't done deals like this before, keeping updated financials for the deal you're doing is going to be huge as you're making decisions throughout the rehab.We call these data-driven decisions.

I have been offering weekly discount but thought of doing a special with a minimum stay for those dates.