These states tie up the legal system and cause congestion.

In my experience, something like that might cause the home to sit on the rental market longer to find a tenant that is ok with overlooking that deficit. 

Plus if it is an older home, there may be other issues that creep in and cause costly bills.

WHEN (yes I mean WHEN not if because over 30+yrs it happens many times) when the market has a drop for whatever reason be it a bad election, war tensions, someone sneezed on there terminal and HFT's went bazerk selling, whatever the cause, WHEN the market drops you get a "Margin CALL" and next thing ya know there not just selling off those leveraged positions BUT there selling em off in the drop, at the lowest price, amplifying losses, all those returns going out the window in moments.     

You need to have sources (agents, wholesalers, GCs) that bring you opportunity that they have mined and they are bringing it to you cause they know you buy.To the vendors of the industry: Agents, Wholesalers, GCs, PMs, what have you...you are nothing until you buy something, until then you are window shopping. 

This has caused me to have trouble with getting approved for loans/mortgages due to my work gap.

Good Cause Eviction, the 2019 TPA, the history of moratoriums, and the clean slate act sealing criminal records and other offenses. 

If the airport authority would deed the buildings to me, it would cause them to be entered on the tax roll.

Majority of my target market is International Students, serious about their Studies, not interested in causing issues.

They could just be keeping it in a drawer and simply rolling the cigarette inside (to then smoke outside) can cause an apt to smell for a little while.