Could briefly raise rates during this time the athletes come to race :)

Our thought is to rent to college athletes (or other college students) in our town.

We turned our former owner occupied home into Recovery Residence and bought a new owner occ - strategy is to move every 1-3 years to help rinse/repeat this strategy.

The tenants just bought a house of their own which is why they vacated a few months early, so I hate to ding them at a time when they are likely a little cash poor, but, it has now been a month and all I have done is run down leads, gotten a few things started, and I'm still digging on prices and reasonable rates....I am still going to come up just over $1000 short on the recovery.... 

Which athlete do you think was happier, the one with a silver medal around their neck or a bronze?

As a pro athlete, locker room talk was always the second best thing to winnning games.

@Angela AybarI don't know anything about bankruptcy recovery / credit repair.  

Given the small amount of the debt and the unlikelihood of a successful recovery, it is not worthwhile.If you want to enforce the debt in NY, you will need to research their laws, but it will likely be unenforceable or too expensive to bother with.Most landlords do exactly what it is your doing.

(morality & ethics should be present)    Another good example:  Charles Poliquin (he coached more Olympic athletes that anyone) one of his last conferences a lady in the audience asked him, about how he trains/ diet plan for elite vegan athletes. 

The sheer logistics of completing search and recovery; clearing the largely incinerated, and toxic, debris field (including hundreds upon hundreds of burned out cars); re-establishing utility main feeds and key branch lines; all while respecting the affected residents AND maintaining security is absolutely monumental.