In desperation, I even visited their office in person, only to have my concerns dismissed and another empty message taken.

Thank you for your kind words, Matthew.

Does that make anyone think, "If you're not bringing any capital to the table then you probably want to avoid this strategy or you probably want to go with this kind of investment"?

Regular Inspections: Conduct frequent site visits to monitor progress and ensure quality standards are met.

You have to look at rents per sales price in both areas and see what kind of return you can get versus what you are getting now outside of real estate.

What kind of improvements are you making? 

As someone who has read Harry Potter, it seems the best way to get the attention of the landlord is to send a scary looking giant to their home residence with a kindly worded letter.More seriously, I was on the other side of the coin previously where my wife put the ads up under her accounts instead of mine, so I couldn't check them without getting on her phone and I was inundated with people looking to see the property (probably 50 over a 5 day period) and was trying to send semi-personalized notes to each one--and it all ended up being too much to handle and I ended up ghosting or not replying to many people after I found an applicant. 

Most of my tenants are visiting scholars coming from all over the world.

We have started looking into wholesaling and subletting but still kind of overwhelmed about the amount of information we still don't know.

Be professional, kind and firm.