It's a business - acquiring/building, managing, and growing a business. 

Build and nurture those relationships. 

New occupants will be coming soon, but in a 3 family, i have set of excellent student tenants that renewed.That said, many landlord insurance policies have exclusions for students, so I am trying to gather info on updating a policy to consider the fact that the building is only going to be 33% student occupied.  

Lots and lots of research.Price points also help, block quality, etc.

Tokenization of real estate assets can take numerous forms, but what you’re proposing is to separate the real estate “bundle of rights”, have the property owner sell one or more “rights” but not all of those rights, and represent the ownership of the rights that have been sold by tokenization utilizing block chain technology rather than the county “filing” systems currently in use.  

Quote from @Kolby Knickerbocker:  Have you considered building here in Central Oregon or an STR here? 

You'll get a feel for the age of the neighborhoods, the vitality of the commercial buildings, the ease of location, the closeness to jobs.The markets you're describing are more linear, and usually have lower capital appreciation.

While your condo snowball strategy builds equity, modest cash flow and HOA fees may limit returns.

You can't add a lake but you can build out a great kitchen with everything needed to cook anything.Every STR owner will have a different answer.

Not sure how they could block a sale but I imagine they told him the central heating unit for the whole complex would soon need replacement so a special assessment would be upcoming.