As long as you do not invest your cash in it, there is no harm in giving it a shot.

If the utilities are off and you are concerned about the possibility of a person frozen inside or other potential harm may have come to a tenant given a lack of communication, that may be grounds to hasten the welfare check.  

Nice try attempting to slip in your advertising for your "market analysis" platform as a helpful post, but its done you way more harm than good because its blatantly incorrect.

But you may incite them to do harm to you or your property if they get angry. 

For Active VA it is common the subject property is being purchased is usually are far distance from there work place is always given. 

You can trade down in value, contrary to popular belief, and it will not harm your 1031 Exchange, but you will pay taxes on the amount that you trade down by. 

With a loan from your 401k, you pay yourself back interest, so no harm, no foul there. 

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.

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.

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.