Tina,If this were at flip to a rental property, not an owner occupied home, you might have less resistance.

That's usually the pat of lest resistance.

Also most electric heat in this area is the baseboard resistance heaters not heat pumps, cheap to install, expensive to run. 

Don't underestimate the recession resistant nature of student rentals.

We noticed many shifts in the markets that made it more challenging to achieve the returns our investors were accustomed to, so we decided to pursue hard assets and realized Multifamily would be the most recession-resistant.

:puts on flame retardant pants:it looks like you posed three questions.  

Set up a section for non-related real estate discussions that is not moderated with the exception of serious flames, for personal, politics, religion, music and whatever.

Also, since guests have to download the app any resistance on downloading the app?

When the filter gets plugged, it puts more resistance on air flow.

Is it an issue of not being able to find these heirs through skip trace, or them not being responsivee, or possibly resisting to cooperate without being paid?