@Lisa Gauff a lot people abandon California in search of "better returns" but for SFR especially, Arizona and Nevada aren't that different from the less expensive places in California like the Central Valley and Inland Empire. 

However, more often than not, when we acquire a small multi family say 4. 6. or 8 units, you already inherit a bunch of pre-existing installations, coax, CAT, old phone wires, some being used, some abandoned (but you don't know they are), and they all go into the dark attic.Unless one is willing to leave all that in place, and install brand new home run wiring to all those locations but leave them unused until there is a vacancy when you can properly enter the unit to do all the hook up properly, it is not an easy thing to plan. 

Our tenant abandoned the property and he helped us rehab it.

Give 100% cut to an exp agent and that would still be a lower income than 50% to a Compass agent, and we know that those splits are not what the actual average is.The fact that you are so adament that agents who sell $1.4m make more money than agents who sell $7m, tell me that EXP is a cult, because you are completely abandoning reason and math altogether. 

Frankly, there are so many abandoned and dilapidated buildings around town . 

I was reading about Detroid in National Geo Mag and it sound slike the city will bulldoze abandonned homes if the property tax is not paid and then seed grass and gift the lot to the neighbor who is stipp paying taxes.

If i mail 50 owners of tax sales and abandoned, half came back undeliverable*(from their county recorded residence)maybe one or two call back.you can use a skiptracer, but @ $50-100 name it can get expensive quick.

So I inquired about this corner abandoned house, and I just got word that it has been rezoned for a duplex. 

There is a need for sober living houses and i live in a landlord market but there are so many abandoned houses here and im a recovering addict with a substantial amount of clean time.

We recently considered doing the same thing in our San Antonio market, but our research prior to making the jump led us to abandon the idea.