See if they will give you an estimate of the assessment for the property.

Have you had an appraisal done recently, or do you have comps to estimate the property's market value?

It will make the loans more valuable if you ever decide to sell them and decreases the chances of default. 

It's likely they’re using this as an excuse to avoid paying rent, and there’s a good chance they didn’t pay the previous manager either.

Currently working with a mentor, and I plan to give him a chance before I jump to something else.

If we rent the unit at $1,425, I have an estimated monthly cashflow of $302 (rent at $1450, cashflow is $325) I DO include vacancy, repairs, and cap exp in my Box2 Expenses.

And, if you’ve been in your house for a few years (or longer), there’s a good chance you’re sitting on a pile of equity — maybe even more than you realize.What Is Home Equity?

But to restate my point: MOST Americans have a BETTER CHANCE of getting a BETTER INVESTMENT just staying in the US. 

I am not worried so much about maximizing it rather than that it gives me a bit; because as more of the estimated $150000 property mortgage I want to take is paid down, the numbers get a bit better with appreciation as well.

By the time a property is formally put up for sale in a town that size the locals have know it was going to be sold and had their chance at it.