@Eric Gutierrez @Roy N.Some times its nice to have a noisy fan in the bathroom.

For that, you'll need your parents to sign for you, even then that can be sticky on who the contract binds.But honestly, do what @Doug Pretorius recommends (which is very clever), or better yet, do what my boy Gary Vaynerchuk preaches and learn to have micro-speed and macro-patients. 

So there are some macro-economic factors at work with supply and demand, and some micro-economic challenges in regard to local competition.Here you can see what I'm saying in your local market - inventory dropping, prices rising, days on market getting shorter:(Source: http://marketminute.longandfoster.com/Market-Minute/VA/Virginia-Beach-City.htm)Does this all mean that direct mail - or real estate investing, in general - just doesn't work right now?  

I can manage hundreds or more from a macro position, but when any human begins to micro manage others, about 30 can be tuff to do, depends on the details required.

*If your county(ies) have their public records searches available online and you're computer savvy, you can use macros to mine the same data every day.

I wrote an excel macro to query BCAD for entire streets.

I know there are some macros in Excel that can do this but I have 0 knowledge about programming and would rather not delay my direct mail campaign any longer. 

Both tenants have been problematic and there are frequent unsavory visitors to the property and I get reports from the neighbors that they're noisy and there's a lot of foot traffic.

Yes, kids will be kids and adults can be just as noisy.

Noisy?