You should not care whether someone may see it as harming your reputation, jerk-like, etc.

It will take time to evolve, so I see no harm getting in the business.

If the buyer can afford both no harm done and most lenders will let greed get in the way of lending when they make a loan and never tell the borrower to not incur more debt.Joe Gore

Seed money doesn't cost you anything to use, but it costs you everything to spend.2 - Your seed money (cash...or a cash like substance) must be a verb and not a noun. 

You will have to take them to court to create any significant repercussions and they may well have too little assets to cause any serious harm to.I do have a "lease breaking clause" in my lease.

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.

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.