Unless you are local or have ties there you can replicate what you can accomplish there in many other markets, especially if you are just buying based on price and rent.

REIAs are more speaker-based and sales-focused sometimes, with pitches, but can be great.

What’s his phone or email? 

I'd see if there are other phone numbers to try? 

After a while I just answered the phone by saying , " Oh wow another real estate agent how can I help you ?

Thanks all,Preston Henman Define your buy box, which area , what price , what size , how to finance based on your risk capabilities.

Don't "make a deal work", it either does or doesn't based on your criteria. 

This means that if the property was able to rent at top of the market rental price, call it "X", you would yield "Y" in cash flow based on the sales price and rental rates.Here is where you have to sharpen your pencil and if possible, visit the property in person.  

That said, you do not have to accept damage to your premises by any tenant, so you are well within your rights to charge these tenants for the damages or move to evict or non-renew based on the damages. 

In the winter you have the snowbirds, the in summer you have the MTV parties at Copper Canyon (it made the photo cover of the phone book one year), and the rest of the year you have people driving back and forth over the London Bridge, and can't find it because it's smaller than they think (lol).