By talking more to the police, we found out that the main tenant had a long history of inviting guests in exchange for help around the house and that those relations would always turn tumultuous and that the police visited the house several times each quarter over civil complaints, suspicious activity, noise, drug related activity, and a bunch of other civil nuisance type of calls.

I hired a local handyman by father knew to 'save on repair costs' as opposed to going with one of my usual GC's.

@V.G Jason Do you manage properties for 3rd parties,  have employees who perform management functions on behalf of your own portfolio or is the management company used for any other business activities such as construction/maintenance?

When creating a list, you are essentially filtering homeowners based on who might seem most likely to sell.You can check your local county records site for properties with delinquent taxes, probate cases, or foreclosure filings

Or maybe go to the town (if you're local) and explain how you want to start improving the neighborhood but need some of your funds released to fix the existing violations.

@Olivier Colson You will first want to find out if the locality has any “Just cause” regulations that prevent you from non renewal, or any other provisions that may keep a section 8 tenant in place.

if you're hiring a PM - let them handle it for youor, go to a REIA meeting, make friends with a realtor, and ask them to run a CMA for youor - look for other active rentals on a whole bunch of different sites and see what others are listed for

Since we are local to each other we should connect.

Agents that work with investors, contractors, and local lenders will be a great start!

I have active SFH long term rentals in the area.