If you get a single or primary point of contact, call that a win and count yourself lucky. 

Being more affordable than the southeast, allows us to get in with a better basis and potential for growth as more people seek out affordable places to live with strong lifestyle amenities, and convenient travel available: major industries, all major sports, Delta Hub airport."

Since I don't want to hijack your thread here, I'm going to start a thread on crazy guests, lol- just so people can vent.

We moved out in June 2023, and since then, I've been renting it out, generating around $1,450 in monthly cash flow, not counting variable expenses.

Many people on this site only are interested in a specific geography.What type of product are you looking for? 

People with cushy government paychecks and benefits and job security.I agree with you that state and Federal losses are not necessarily tied.

Go to local Real Estate meetups and learn from people there

That is likely because you are hiring unlicensed people to do the work.  

I did hear, but not via official communication, that ~50 people for mission beach lost their permits for cheating on the lottery.  

Bro, the class action lawsuit is going to give people who file like $13.The only thing changing post August 17th is 1 sentence being added to that listing agreement that says, probably in bold ..."