But that increase can come with a thorny issue: capital gains tax when they file their tax returns after selling.

I believe it would increase overall investment demand with our  landlord/tenant laws being significantly more landlord friendly than CA, property taxes not reassessing on the sale, consistent job and population growth, proximity to Lake Tahoe, and temperatures that are not as cold as Tahoe in the Winter but are cooler Sacramento or Las Vegas in the summer. 

As for expanding, I'm 50 next year and I'd love to be able to retire in the next 5 years.I signed up for Tax-sale.info to see if I can find any bargains in single family homes etc.I prefer to buy and hold/rent rather than flip.

I'd decided in advance my maximum bid (figuring the taxes owed, the value of the lot and the cost of scraping the existing house if it came to that). 

Also you want to stay in the state with zero income tax.. 

Per the lease they only owe me about 6 more weeks until they're out.

I have a similar situation where the tenant owed 6300 for the past few months ive been getting an extra 500 from her bring it down to around 3800 but now her portion for the rent has gone up drastically for the new lease renewal so I probably wont be seeing much more and will be cutting my losses next time they are behind.

Is your DSCR ratio greater than 1-meaning are you cash flowing (according to the lender's criteria of mortgage, property taxes and insurance (and HOA) if applicable).

2 weeks will be extremely challenging especially without pre arranged financing.In some ways the delinquent rent is a positive because it implies that rent control does not come into play.On purchase, you want the owed money to transfer with the purchase.  

Between just those 3 items, that's tens of thousands in tax return and lower of the tax brackets as whole.