With the way Pensacola is laid out you can look in almost the entire area if you don't mind commuting up to 30 minutes. 

Just have to have your props dialed in and basically the best bang for the buck those are selling very quickly..

After doing that I wanted to get into multifamily rentals but I'm wondering if that's even the right way now.

This took me about 6 weeks since there was no easy way (trust me, I tried) to find the lots.- I was able to get access to private investigator software to find the true owners of these properties since conventional skiptracing produced poor results.  

I would agree that the best way to manage this situation is to forgive any late fee incurred and eat the NSF fee as well this one time.  

, we rarely need to evict, and one of the reasons for that (other than a consistent 21-point tenant screening process) is that once the tenant recognizes that you are serious and have a consistent process in place they respond in one way or another.One more thing - I suggest you don't accept partial payments, as this can delay the process as well.Feel free to reach out if you have additional questions or if I can assist in any way!

You will have to talk to your Local MLS, they should have a feed that you can provide to your database engineer, pretty much the same way Zillow gets all the MLS data. 

That said, I would NOT have handled that the same way.

Obviously you'll need to make sure you get a job/W2 income for at least 2 weeks to a month to get a loan to buy but luckily that's way easier than if you're having to work with 1099's starting out because most lenders require at least 2 years of tax returns at that point to get a loan.

It's always best to consult with a real estate attorney to make sure you're structuring the deal correctly.