I did some DM marketing and realized how much  money I was potentially passing up by having only one solution, sell me your house for pennies on the dollar.  

You do this with lower priced homes, you'll have issues, more than half falling out unless you hold their hand, educate them, monitor them and motivate them to cure what ales them.Having a CPA who got divorced and had medical bills, or any other sophisticated professional, who doesn't need a babysitter is a much better prospect.

We are looking to monitor the ski area this winter.

There are plenty of solutions that can help you with that (I suggest MyVR).I'm not sure channels like HomeAway or Airbnb will have guests searching for your area.

As for getting out from under debt, there's really only one solution: Make more money! 

I am excited about joining the Bigger Pockets community to share my experiences with others and to have the opportunity to learn new solutions to real estate problems and challenges.

Wanted to know if there was a solution to this.

Water systems require backflow on commercial & multifamily because there's greater chance for someone to create the conditions that might allow a backflow scenario to exist, i.e. a hose sitting in cleaning solution, or a chemical mixer attachment on a hose, wherein a drop in pressure on the city main could cause those materials to be drawn into the distribution system.

To get people out and raise rents, owners and investors in Metropolis are having to pay "severance packages" for tenant of 5 - $10,000 / $20,000 / $25,000 sometimes more depending on surface and other factors.Your solution is to build model to sell these unit to the tenants (on a massive scale).The model you come up with to tackle these 550 low yielding units you portfolio is the following: Instead of using bribes to kick people out you decide to "subsidizing tenants'" into 1st time ownership. i.e. you want to help them to buy there own flat (at least the tenants who are decent earners).Instead of using money to get tenants out, the model would be to help them get financing by sponsoring a portion of the deposit on the Mortgage.

In this case, the short sale is a possible solution to their problem.