The lack of short term rental data available to the appraiser concerns me. 

I am also building a group of investors to syndicate with, so more cash available soon as well.why?

What capital do you have available now to buy or are you only looking for seller financing?

Find an experienced eviction attorney and start the eviction on the first business day available.

It is not very difficult or complicated to evaluate commercial real estate, there are plenty of good books available that can teach you how, textbooks, online courses, community college classes, even excellent youtube videos etc, and it is actually quite enjoyable in the process to learn.

The quality of available tenant varies drastically depending on the neighborhood.

First house in 2021 - no internet to search at that time, remember going to realtor offices and seeing magazines and talking on phone with them about properties available and driving by them as there was no google street view.

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@Sebastian Nadal for background checks, I use stessa/rent prep that’s available to us through biggerpockets tools.

Quote from @Brandon Foster: Hello Ryan,STR is do able in the north county area but there are a lot of rules and regulations.The city of Oceanside right now will not allow anything STR unless it’s west of pacific coast hwy.This is changing a lot too so you need to be aware of that in your plans.Carlsbad is super strict too but there are some condos that are still available to do STR in.Medium term rentals are as safer bet but way less profitable.