For anyone considering this, it’s probably worth consulting with a local land-use attorney or planner to navigate the specifics and make sure you’re maximizing the opportunity without running into red tape.

If you give them 30 days to get rid of the dogs, there will be comfort animal certificates in 2 days from an online site.

You can very comfortably and at your own pace set yourself up for a very stable start by strategically positioning yourself to be able to buy a property this way if you start preparing now.I hope this was helpful!

Like most service industries, there is nothing more important than the human touch as that is what people relate to and feel comfortable with.

The property manager can make or break you, it has to be a PM that is working in that space and is comfortable there.I agree with earlier comments to look in the front and back yards to see how many old cars, abandoned junk, or treasures that aren't treasures are piling up. 

Get out of your comfort zone.

We comfortably could use the cash flow but could probably survive if reduced by half but only as long as have our tenant at the primary residence.

We need to be able to communicate and work together on this.If you don’t feel comfortable sending me the email list directly, you can send a generic email to the whole group (like you used to send the monthly updates )and ask who wants to share their email and be part of the group email with other investors so that we can find solutions together. thank you

After discussing their goals, we realized they would like to maximize the property's value while also including me in the process, given my background in general contracting.

And for an OOS, I always advise to keep things simple at start, don't get greedy, go for quality and consistency, then work on maximizing monetization later.