Your buying something that will be tough to sell. 

Filling up the property could be tough, and managing multiple tenants annually can be demanding.

Lots of growth in both population and jobs and housing.Rentals are a bit tough I think right now for the most part, but I think the market will start to shake out over the next year or two.If you are not a PR or citizen of the US, then you have to decide if you want to use cash, which is probably preferable or use financing. 

That's a tough gig too, but failure rate is only going to be like 88% vs the 99.9% failure rate of your current plan.Or...Save some coin and do a house hack.

It’s in a tough neighborhood. 

Tough to say without knowing the demographic.

What are the best methods and products to tackle these tough cleaning tasks?

Not once.I would only consider it in a tough market like California, but even then, there are other techniques to try first.

@Constantinos Zavos It's tough out there right now.

that was 7 years ago though and inventory is much tighter now.yes on auctions - you often have to buy with incomplete or incorrect information, and so just very tough to do as your first or second deal.it sounds like you're doing some of the right things in terms of starting to build a network, but it's just very tough to act when you need to when you're out of state.