We have upped our game significantly to counter this, and now start pre-leasing activities 3-4 weeks out whenever a tenant is not responding. 

I have a few stubborn tenants who insist upon paying in cash and I make them take the money to my bank with a pre-filled out deposit slip with my name and the last three digits of the account number and then they fill in the date and the amount of the deposit.

Because Florida is the nation’s largest contributor to active inventory (19%) and monthly new listings (15%), despite being the 3rd-most populous state.Florida Facts:Population: 23 million (#3 after CA with 39 million and TX with 30 million)Active Listings (Feb 2024): 125,962 (19.0% of total US active listings)New Listings (in Feb 2024): 49,294 (14.6% of total US new listings)Median Listing Price (Feb 2024): US$459KIncrease in Median Listing Price (YoY)2017: +6.6%2018: +0.1%2019: +3.1%2020: +3.7%2021: +21.1%2022: +8.5%2023: +2.2%Median Listing Price: FloridaActive Inventory: FloridaAt the state levelFlorida’s active inventory of nearly 126,000 listings is back to pre-pandemic levels.

Step1: get a pre-approval letter from a lender. this pre-approval will tell you how much of a monthly payment you can afford and will give you a purchase price to stay under (60-75 days out)Step2: find a realtor to begin working with. if you don’t know a realtor, ask around!

pre-foreclosure means a notice of default has been sentforeclosure means a sale date has been setAuction is the actual auctioning of the propertyREO is Real Estate Owned - the bank won the auction  What happens when the bank wins the auction... does it go onto the mls as an reo property?

Sign in sheets and 24 hour pre approvals for open houses? 

(Maybe you could make some sort a pre-arrangement with them - or work with an angel investor that could front the money and then you reimburse them with a hard money loan or something like that).  

It can be if that is what you know and can find good team members in.You should be engaging an lender now to get a pre-approval.

November pre-eviction process was started, December got an attorney to evict. 

It is a pre-existing multi-family building in a commercial(C-3 Zone).