We have to buy plane tickets to Columbus, stay at a hotel, interview property managers, determine repairs needed.

You show your reservation when purchasing tickets and they took 10% off.

Offer a one way bus ticket and food money to a destination of their choice.

Emergency or big ticket items did take I'd say equal effort in setting up but it was slightly easier as the PM did the calling/scheduling. 

From my perspective with goals of long-term buy and hold, foundation issues are one of the big ticket items that would make me walk away.

Retail value of tickets were $9k each way

Where salesmen are making fifty percent commissions off of a fairly big ticket product with overrides that can in theory include 30-40 people, there is a LOT of money to potentially make on sales commissions.  

I went to our county court website and she has been in court THREE times for eviction, multiple times for speeding tickets, once for a disorderly conduct and another time for some sort of dispute that I can't figure out.

(Most of the big ticket items are in good shape with the exception of the heating systems which are dated but still operational.)

As a result, I was ticketed/cited to appear in court.