When wife hired a contractor, she spent considerable time researching and contacting contractors, obtaining price quotes and supervising repairs.

Short of going up there to find meth lab, why not allow access to the attic for storage?

She is charismatic that is part of the pathology, she fits every clinical criteria for animal hoarding and will DO ANYTHING to keep the five dogs, always black labs.

If your worker is working tasks you assign under your supervision and control, they work a schedule, they work inside your offices, etc. they are your employee.Small operators get away with this sort of thing for years.

You'll see that many people from the mid-West and all over own and self-manage, especially is you personally like visiting the area occasionally for "supervision".

@Jane IstreToo many red flagsQuick turnover and potential party central and meth lab

I use Guesty for automated messaging, price labs for pricing, and i just started using an AI bot to respond to one off questions, called "guest Guru" too early to tell if it will help, but this is what i would use if co-hosting another property. 

They host labs and seminars only to try to sell you more things. 

A new attorney can look into the original case and see if it's still under supervision of the courts.

With that kind of situation, if nothing happens for two weeks while you are away at work, then it's not the same as having folks working on a flip with no supervision.