I wanted to steer clear of STR because all the AirBnB laws keep changing, and with economic slow down and layoffs in tech sectors which is an area of extreme disposable income to travel etc, it just feels like the wrong time for me personally to invest in an area where discretionary travel is likely to be the first to go from people's budgets as they tighten their household budgets.

My question is: what layers/indirection is required to steer clear of those?

Most buyers agents don't want to deal with those headaches, and may steer away their buyers from those homes. 

Sure there's times things in life pop up, bit in reinforcing them to be accountable, they can learn measures to steer away from those obstacles.    

Since QM's have far stricter underwriting, I understand why they would steer clear of this loan.

Assume that they won't stay, so steer them to leaving in months where you have more availability or easier months to rent, such as spring/summer.We like to increase rent to 50% of the difference between current and market rent each year. 

I will list the steps and some notes of what I have found out and maybe somebody can steer me in the right direction of how to proceed.1. found vacant property with an eviction notice from sheriffs office posted on front door2. from all my research the woman is dead and may possibly have children 3. went to clerks office and pulled the records.. clerk told me it looks like it was sold back to bank. also looks to be a 60k tax lien on property4. went to tax assesors office and they said the tax bill is up to date5 called wells fargo about property and they told me it looks like the property is still in forclosure. they wouldn't tell me the amount but from my research at clerks office it is about 70k.Can anyone tell me how I can aquire try to aquire this property?

You can outline these erratic behaviors as context for the clear lease violations, but as others have said, I would steer away from using any terms (e.g. mentally ill, schizophrenia) that could be used against you as discrimination.  

Marco has never tried to steer me towards his properties over others or towards certain markets over others other than for my own criteria which I like.

I would steer clear for a touch screen because a tenant will not be as gentle as you would to the screen and I see them broken a lot.