This is an area that home inspectors typically do not cover in their reports.

Estimate utilities and figure out who pays them (separate meters, landlord paid, etc)5.

Next step is typically to file the action at the courthouse, like you said. 

Purley asset-based lenders are most likely going to be hard money lenders whose rates are typically going to be much higher.

I have seen a lot of folks that typically BRRRR pivot to flipping for the time being.

I can only think that this grows as we move into the typical buy/sell season.I assume that your buyer funnel is full, and a lot of people have the want to buy with a constraint or two (rate mostly) of some sorts and you're working with them to execute their purchase at the right time while working around their constraint.

Most out-of-state syndications or hedge funds wouldn’t typically consider the cities you mentioned.

Like you said, you have to make deals and look outside of the typical markets. 

Make sure everyone knows a cleaning schedule, expectation for common areas, how are you splitting utilities, guest policy, etc. 

If you see utilities increasing, is there a way that you can push this on to the tenant?