No harm in calling a local agent and seeing properties and putting numbers together.Best of luck.

If the current occupant wants to sign a lease agreement and you have no gap, and no damages to mitigate, then you can't pursue them for anything because you haven't been harmed.

That will add some much needed infrastructure to the area but I wonder if the clientele of that building will actually do more harm than good.

I also don't know if there's any harm is trying to market the unit as "furnished" once you close on a property for a slight premium on the rent.  

I will pass on the political discussion of how much harm this has done.MD also passed laws to make it tough to help people in pre foreclosure. 

Hopefully, you schooling and training will keep you out of harm's way at lease for a while?

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

@Jonathan Harms Thanks!

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

There is no harm in pre-leasing.