Is this tenant combative at all?

They are also boosting the shelter system and trying to offer more drug/mental health treatment services among many other strategies to try and combat many different causes of the problem.   

How were you able to combat the situation?

Having one can help you sleep better at night since you have emergency money available, but their best use may be in finding a great deal to flip.Affirm to yourself why you began in real estate investing, combat the fear, and search for the next great deal, with a focus on building cash reserves for the future.

Of course, things like this are better fixed with neighborly friendliness rather than lawyers, who get expensive and combative quickly (not the lawyers per-se, but the neighbors when they get legal letters).

So To combat that price point I partner with other investors and I manage the rehabs. iv traveled all over Virginia North Carolina as of now I'm doing my first 50/50 split with another investor to do a major rehab (iv never done something this big before) but the rehab is about 3 hours away from Washington DC because that is how far you have to go to get a house for under 200k.

Looking forward to navigating the site, learning as much as I can and combat the whole analysis paralysis that I definitely see being an issue for me. 

Aside from being horrible tenants; always late with the rent, combative in nature and mean to the other residents, they stopped paying rent altogether in spring of 2019.

But as a combat veteran who uses VA loans personally and helps other Veterans use their entitlement.

@Dan Valiente Well another Cali native, I'm a combat vet living in Southern California ( High Desert) If you're first starting out I would utilize your VA loans.