Follow the procedures to foreclose on the home & gain good title, then offer them the opportunity to rent or move.If the residents are in their 80's, they have social security income - there's no reason the taxes should not be paid, except for dirtbag relatives stealing those funds.

This lesson never failed, if a kid was not really trying to play or fully engaged in the activity they would always get hurt.

To be honest, I don’t even waste my time engaging them.Tenants will “try you!”

Maybe and this is supposition on my part the companies involved wanted to mitigate social media and negative press.. that can be in my mind the only reason they would send buyers rent checks on vacant homes.. now with the buyers who never saw them were not allow 3rd party inspection.. and all paid cash.. you can see how that would be easily manipulated.. but again I don't know if it was a Ponzi or not.. 

To expand beyond the circle of affluent people down in Greenville, perhaps you want to start doing social media and SEO to begin to attract people into your platform who don't live in your area.  

Let's say you got 2 prospective tenants who tell you that they are undocumented immigrants and have not social security numbers.

Suprisingly, many of those agents have hung around solely because of their social connections.

A new campus drawing top, highly compensated talent will change everything about that city in the same way that Seattle has seen lurching advances in housing quality and prices, public amenities, tax dollars, and social tension, not to mention the explosion of satellite commerce in the service industry, plus startup activity that leaks out.And that's just the first five years!

You want some engagement/commitment. 

Real estate is a social business, it is not like dealing with widgets from behind a sales counter at some store or dealing in personal property.