I would stay there until I find my next deal, hopefully I have created some equity so I would refinance to to get the next down payment and then repeat. 

So first question, if one of the main reasons that they aren't good is due to the initial seller not wanting to sell to you when you want to buy and you having to sue, what if you put a clause in there stating that in the event that you have to sue to to non-performance, seller will agree to pay 100% of his attorney fees, 100% of your attorney fees, and an additional $10,000 in damages.

Even with CA civil codes that require a lender to respond to a successor in interest or junior lender, I haven't been able to to get lenders these days to budge on this.

We have 4 properties. Our primary (my husband's)  and one rental (mine)  in San Diego, CA. One rental in Indiana and one rental in Texas. We just created a living trust and would like to fund the trust with our proper...

Currently we use a company that uses a third party verification so even though we get the paperwork signed by the borrower that gives us permission to run these checks, they still need to approve, and pay for, the check through the site.

Would it be worth it to to small kitchen rehabs and try to raise the rents?

You might ask what % of their RE loans are construction, the higher probably the better as they are obviously good at it and have the expertise, some banks don't have the management capabilities and verification process to adequately do construction.

As Joel mentioned building codes in Florida did change back in March but it's unlikely that there would be anything significant that might affect you.Another thing to check on these type of properties is just a quick verification that there are no county or city code enforcement liens.

I don't think the tenant will be willing (but probably is able to) to pay this months rent even by the end of the month as the tenant has had a history of pushing limits. 

Keep in mind this is just my opinion, and there are VA companies directly that you can go to, to hire trained VA’s to do cold calling and lead gen as well.