Home Office Setup: Create a comfortable remote work environment equipped with reliable high-speed internet.

You could probably notify the courts and advise them that the property you've filed eviction on appears to have been abandoned and submit photos to them showing the state of the unit (empty, but before you move anything out) and they may go ahead and dismiss the case or just speed it up.Another option if you haven't entered the property yet, you could call the police and inform them you can't reach the occupant and ask them to do a well being check. 

So my plan is for my next property to be an STR so I can supercharge my cashflow and speed up getting the duplex to 20%.

Maybe some markets have 30K houses and can be brought up to speed for 40K, but what kind of renter are you going to get for 70-80K all in for a home value?

What levers can you pull speed up this plan? 

Many investors I work with prefer them over Conventional simply due to ease of use and speed. 

Holding costs are likely to be much higher than most places because of the speed of sale and escrow on Oahu. 

He also has a Substack for more long form content if that's more your speed. 

25 SFHs, 1 LLC, 1 checking account, 1 spreadsheet, 1 insurance policy, 1 mobile phone, 1 laptop, MS office, 1 pickup truck, Zillow, apartments.com, probably 25 trusted trades / professionals on speed dial. 

I wasn't in doing short-sales in the 2008/9 Recession, and an agent that did them then may not be up to speed on how they work now.