**Monitor Progress and Adapt** - Regularly review your goals and progress

Making sure you are doing more hours than any other party can be tricky, which is why you should regularly monitor your hours and the activity of your vendors. 

Get pre-approved for a mortgage, conduct site visits, use analytics tools, network with investment groups, monitor foreclosure listings, and look for areas with long-term growth potential.

What is the infrastructure story (do they have water/sewer/power to support growth)?

You need to balance these options with alternative markets, partial cash-out refinance, or holding and monitoring.

It seems like it would be a logistical nightmare for all these cities to monitor these illegal units.

But you are right, these infrastructure developments take time and it remains to be seen how quickly they can be overcome. 

Thanks for monitoring posts to ensure new investors are working with legitimate operators.

Sorry but that LL is an idiot..... you either kick that person out in Feb 2022 or you religiously monitor that property for more illegal/unauthorized activity....because its going to happen.

My second biggest lesson is to not expect them to treat your property as if it is their own and to monitor their work accordingly.