There are some areas of northern California where Vacation Rentals off the grid may be marketable, but probably not in the actual northern California areas, but more the central California (north of the bay area a little in more mild climates)  In some of the mountain areas and near the coast, such as Trinity, Humbolt counties, there are drug cartels growing pot, and several people have gone missing (they stumble upon the gardens or have gone to work at the grows, never to be heard from again).

It's no secret that Mexico has had an issue with drug cartel violence for as much as I can remember.

To be fair I am pretty sure I heard the whole diamond cartel (monopoly), marketing ploy somewhere else before I watched that episode of Adam ruins everything...but I’ve also seen that episode so maybe I’m just remembering wrong, either way makes me think long and hard about spending a ton of money on a ring.

The US is the biggest customer the Mexican drug cartels have.

well without dual agent complexity, this is the behavior of 88.88% of bay area realtor anyway.It's almost like Mafia Cartel in disguise here, mostly bad actors LOLI have been treated worse and give 'em my middle finger

The whole country is living through a security/cartel war crisis never seen before.

Cement manufacturers have formed a cartel.

So I'm looking for some advice on which course of action you all would recommend:1) Keep the tenant (who wants to renew and has paid the rent), despite their maintenance issues and the rumors they're part of some drug cartel I hear from the neighbors... but get a new property manager or manage it myself if I can correct their deficiencies.2) Look for both new tenants and a new property manager (or do it myself since I did a better job vetting tenants to begin with).3) Sell it.

Real estate values have been beaten down in Mexico, not just by the media and the negative publicity from the drug cartels, but also because the economic in the US and abroad.The first step is to identify why your market lacks buyers and then try to address the problem.

Or money supply is controlled by a cartel.