I am located in Ohio and like many people I have researched and read about, tired of the 9-5 grind and putting money into someone else's pockets. 

Quote from @Angel Romero: You'll get plenty of advice on what to buy, where to buy, how to cash out equity, setting up an LLC, and other noise.

Noise monitoring.

I’d love to find some owner financing deals but that’s been a grind haha.

Tenant took photos and videos but nothing detailed - a single shot or two of a room from the entrance, so is saying fridge was fine, normal wear etc Next - If we are being nice and deducting ‘portions’ of the charges and tenant continues to grind away, or this goes to court, do the compromise and smaller amounts offered negate the full amounts that could have been charged

Every time we're preparing for a new administration, there's plenty of tax-related noise.

What you have is noise...the tenant elected to stay in the property during the repairs which you made promptly.

IDK why but it really helped something something click for me mentally, so maybe it helps someone else too in the daily grind of the whirlwind.

Find a lawyer and issue a lease violation for other issues such as excessive noise and furniture removal.

The majority of them are in the grind and are not at a place where they have millions of disposable dollars where they realize that buying one more profitable investment won't have a huge positive impact in their life.