Anything over a 10-15 minute drive will drive you nuts and you will lose time each day you have to deal with it. 

Mt Baldy is much better but the town is tiny, would be tough to crack that nut.

There's usually enough lower hanging fruit for them to go after instead of having to go through the approval process just to have the unit not pass for one big reason or another.

@Steve Porcello,Another option you might explore is whether you can get a restraining order against this nut.

So I have the potential to purchase a property with 3 units on 5 acres, which includes a ton of fruit trees that are taken care of by outsourced farmers (small check to owner).

second , charging extra to take payment in person is nuts 

If I was not already prepped with some knowledge of investing, my meetup with that old college friend would not have been as fruitful as it was.  

Mostly it feels like it's about about optics - and Option 1 (with the small rent increase + a small utility fee is easier to swallow than here's a $400 rent increase.I find it nuts that the last owner was eating all of those utility costs - but as I've learned everyone's finances are different and maybe he owned the house/didn't have a mortgage. 

.- Latino neighborhoods are low hanging fruits due to low income, ease of displacement and relatively lower crime rate.- Afro American neighborhoods are susceptible but will take a longer time.

An example is if a note had 3 years remaining that was paying 4,000 year but you paid $10k for it, your ROI is 40% but your overall return (interest rate you paid yourself which is IRR) is much lower.Where to find notes - you can find them everywhere but the low hanging fruit you will pay retail and have lower returns.