Does anyone have any creative ideas of how a city and local investors can work together to ensure that all properties are safe, habitable and reasonably well-kept without instituting such a harsh, blanketed ordinance meant to keep some of the 'bad apples' in compliance?

When you upgrade to SD IRA you gaining main advantage: ability to diversify your investments into non-traditional assets (real estate, trust deeds, precious metals, etc. etc.)When you compare apples with apples (instead of apples with oranges) you will realize that gaining virtually limitless potential to diversify your IRA (using SD IRA tool) is an advantage.

thankyou so much Joel i appreciate it, been looking at some prospective syndication deals in commercial retail/shopping centers and also at some mortgage loan funds too, one offering 8% preferred, fixed rate with no profit share of anything above that with a few year lock up period, trying to figure out how to compare apples to apples within the commercial retail/shopping centers syndication is confusing as well with the different terminology and the different splits structures etc

Pick an apple from a tree, take it to the farmer's market, and sell it as a wackamata.

Don't let this 1 bad apple discourage you from this business.

It’s like saying I’m an owner of apple.

I will have access to the internet on my iPhone (and I may bring a laptop for back up)Please let me know if you had success hosting from afar, or if you had trouble.

Now I use Zelle and Apple Pay because I heard they are more secure.

@Nancy Bender what I would do is call vacation rental management companies and ask for the gross revenue on homes X size, then condos X size in a specific area/ neighborhood you’re interested in so you can compare apples to apples.

I’m trying to do both actually, cause even the best tenants can take a turn for the worst and I’m not convinced you can omit all the bad apples even with proper screening.