The police ha"d been called repeatedly but had been able to do nothing because the bank refused to press charges.

As a long term rental you will be hard pressed to find properties that will cash flow in both areas without implementing a value add strategy.

@Travis Petty you may be hard pressed to find a hard money lender to loan you funds without any of your money out of pocket.

Depending on the price point, you'll be hard pressed to find anything else that will cash flow elsewhere in Southwest Florida

Pressed, I share that I was born in El Salvador, and most tell me they are glad those kids are in cages at the border.

The data folks know how to 'load' the data (it's actually really easy to do), but use the same generalized data sets in many of the housing models that get national press for sales and predictions.

If not then you're brokering without a license which is illegal so you'd have other more pressing problems.

It's far safer to keep your distance and report what you can, when you can.I think you'd be pressed to find one sane landlord who would consider buying that property directly.

This may not be for you (since you are not doing a 1031 exchange), but I will say for others that if pressed on time in your 1031 replacement search, a DST (Delaware Statutory Trust) is a last-minute option for many.  

I would go with the 1st option, but it's going to be hard to press someone in court to pay the bill because they can say they did not use that much utilities, without sub-metering, you would not have any proof on who used more than the other tenants, but for the most part tenants will pay it.I guess if you wanted to stipulate in the contract that the lower unit would pay for the entire building you could, it's a contract after all..