Either would be a great option; I'd probably choose Roseville because it's more established, but the City of Elk Grove deserves a lot of credit for its impactful growth programs, so it wouldn't be a bad option. 

Reward: Assess whether the uncertainty surrounding the current occupants, title clarity, and liens aligns with your risk tolerance.

Choose to learn from this and just be better to those that come after…

When choosing a location for your first rental, it’s great that you’re considering factors like crime rate, population growth, employment rate, and price-to-rent ratio—those are all key metrics.

There are many good companies around to choose from.  

Other than that, you can prepare a simple notice letting them know that you thank them for applying, however they did not meet the criteria, and you can choose to tell them it was based off of their credit, and or background or simply just say that the minimum requirements were not met. 

A few reasons I choose to bank with them:-Very easy to set up business bank accounts under my LLCs-Option to create virtual accounts under each LLC.

But it's tolerable if you stay on them and just expect that things take time.

We can still choose how much to pay someone to operate it if necessary.

I would encourage you to sit down with a couple of real estate salespersons and choose one based upon experience as well as knowledge of the area.