Quote from @Sebastian Medina: I would search out people in your market that are flipping, and try going to a couple meetups as well.

put another way:-Go on Zillow and buy a random property in Detroit: fail, lose money, give up on real estate investing.

Welcome to Colorado and BP!

We are looking to eventually relocate to the States"--that's great, a lot of people want to invest remotely in a totally random market and never go to it.  

I go to Japan almost every year -- the demographic future is not positive.

But yes, now that we are here, maybe let him know that if things do not get up to date or cleaned up you will go to his superiors.When people are late right at the beginning, I let them know that the behavior is not acceptable and let them know there are consequences to that bad behavior. 

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I’m going to talk to them today about the complaints that I am getting, but if this pursues, what exactly are my options in this situation? 

Gas or electric would be a much better option, safety wise, from a house fire standpoint, CO danger, or danger to children or pets from the open flames. 

But again, Chicago is a town where if you are one block over from the good area, you can go from an A to a C crossing the street.