Unfortunately, Colorado has just passed HB 24-1098, the "just cause" eviction bill, which requires landlords to offer lease renewals to their tenants unless one of a few specific criteria are met (if the property is going to be sold, substantially repaired, or renovated, or if the landlord’s family plans to move in - but basically you can't put it up for rent to anyone else for at least 90 days).

If you have, say, $30K in savings, what you should NOT do is spend all of it on some random property that shows in a spreadsheet that you'll make $102 a month, and then you buy it and get crushed by repairs and maintenance. 

I had a repair man out ($50) and his answer was the tenant had turned off the hot water.

You don't need a lot of cash to start house hacking for example, although you do have to be mindful of repairs, etc. 

CO landlords can still evict for all of the common grounds for eviction: nonpayment of rent, violation of lease terms, damage to property, disturbing the peace, health and safety violations, illegal activities etc. and can also still evict if they plan to conduct repairs or renovations, property demo or conversion, move in to the unit themselves or have a family member move in, withdraw the property from the rental market, or if the tenant refuses to sign a new lease with reasonable terms. 

to give some feedback, you will need to estimate the cost to repair the house; if you don't know how to do that, we just need some  information of what the house needs and the sqft of the propertyIf the house is, as an example, 2500 sqft, and It looks like you are stuck in time back in the 1980s, but the AC is working,  the roof is ok, and there are no foundation, plumbing, or electrical issues; I can assume maybe a $20 per sqft, so the rehab is about $50K to 60KIf the ARV is 290K minus 10% closing/holding costs, - minus 20% profit - $50K rehab, ideally, in this example, I need to buy the house for about $150K to flip it, but as a landlord, I may be able to pay a bit more, as long as rehab is not too much, and rental is about $3,000 to $3,500 a month

The property we have has some repair work that needs to be done before we are selling it out as a 1031.

If he files a transfer deed to the Land Trust or if he "sells it" then property taxes increase, the change in hazard insurance becomes a tangle.I wouldn't give authority to a bank person to collect rents, file evictions, deal with repairs... there are set up costs and on-going management costs.

Have there been any repairs to the well, including the pump or pressure tank?

Don't go off the deep end and get into something that is way over the top in need of repair!