This is being challenged in courts, so monitor it, but that alone could take a while.Cash for keys is truly your best option.

Also, you'd have to consider clearing the land and laying down infrastructure if wooded. 

There are many people involved in this thread that are far more educated and intelligent than myself, but one strategy I'd highly recommend is closely monitoring REO/Foreclosure Auction listings on the MLS/Auction sites.

Mine can set door codes, message (or call) guests, schedule cleaners, adjust the thermostat, monitor my cameras, & call a plumber just as easily as a local PM can, for 1% of the costI wrote much more about leveraging offshore assistants in this post here.

Having spent a couple of months in Moscow in the winter of  '85 (in fact Chernenko had died earlier that year), I admire your ability to live there let alone actively invest in old world infrastructure.

Seems to me that cost should lead you to ensure water use is better monitored.

Monitor what they do with the subject.

Just tell everyone that San Antonio and Austin are the places to be so they can keep fighting it out for homes that don't cash-flow and see very little appreciation.Laredo has everything a great community for investment needs: jobs, development, infrastructure and an influx of capital coming in from the manufacturing and shipping industries.Don't tell a soul about your secret gold mine.

The government is investing massively in infrastructure and marketing to bring in more tourists.

There are many strategies to use.I would counsel you to pause before you move away from an incredibly lucrative growth area like Tampa to head north where your demographics, infrastructure, target market density and appreciation prospects are compromised.