This can be very profitable purchase if you can fix whatever issue, but you are making it more difficult by setting a deadline.

Common advice I've received from other landlords is to avoid them because they often leak or fail and are difficult to maintain.

Explain how difficult it will be for them to rent in the future.

From the course is it a difficult process? 

Leasing things in the winter is much more difficult.  

That's unusual and it would be very difficult to find a passive investment like that.Also direct control means I know exactly what's going on.

Would you say getting loans for commercial units is more difficult?

If this is representative of the construction industry around other markets in the nation and assuming many of these workers are undocumented (they may very well be legally working here, but having been through the immigration process myself, that would be difficult) the impact on construction would be massive. 

The cities laws make landlord very difficult for raising rents and evicting tenants. 

With the most difficult buyers it can lead to last minute re-trades over inconsequential amounts of money but is just a pain to deal with.