It can be more difficult to remove difficult tenants.

My understanding is the 10% down loans have tightened up and are much more difficult to get.Start with banks you already do business with and local credit unions.I have used Associated Credit Union and Rocket mortgage.

I and my colleagues can get them VERY difficult for someone new coming in. 

Nevertheless we have wholesaled just a couple in Maine and have found its much more difficult to do assignments there given how Maine operates compared to other states.

. - How are they currently navigating in difficult markets? 

State are making it difficult for all of us due to the same reason. 

Section 8 tenants are very difficult to handle for most people.

https://www.biggerpockets.com/real-estate-investing/house-ha...https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/live-in-flipunfortunately it's just a very difficult time to get started. 

And it is usually difficult to recommend areas without context, as you never know what price point and property class someone is targeting.

It is not difficult.