I would recommend using a complete turnkey company that is stationed in the actually city.

I am a beginning investor in the Bryan/College Station/Houston area.

If you have the documentation to show everything you're doing is within legal bounds and there's no HOA or deed restricting you from fixing up the place, the tenant, owner, or the owner's grandma shouldn't be able to stop you.I would also continue to file complaints with the local police about the harassment or even go down to the station in person, meet the local officers, build a rapport.

A new huge hospital was built just blocks away, new developments with commercial buildings and gas stations around the corner, other multifamily properties have sold 500K+), duplexes have sold 300K+, and also just a few streets over there have been some higher end condos built and sold.

I went to the fire station nearby and drew floor plans and locations of furniture, etc. for the police. 

Anyway, I am stationed here in Atlanta and trying to get my "investing feet" on the ground.

I just moved here from Station 10.

My name's Jimmy, and I'm a Marine EOD Tech stationed at Camp Pendleton, California.  

I really need to look more into RE investing, i dont know enough about it to truly know what you are talking about, most of my knowledge of real estate investing it just winging it as i go over the years, i honestly didnt look at it as an investment at first and just bought houses were i was stationed at in the military instead of renting, then rented them out after moving to a new station... thus turning into a investment, i never picked out any of the properties i own as an investment or picked them out knowing i would make more money if i bought it in a certain area... i just bought would i liked over the years...

To save water, have the tenants share the shower, only take one bath a week, flush the toilet only after 5 uses, remove the water meter and replace it with a connector pipe (so no water is being metered), have tenants only use bottle water to drink and cook with, take showers at vacant for sale  houses where you have the key box code (make friends with your local agent), wash up in the morning in the bathroom at a local restaurant or gas station. ;-)OK, I am only kidding.The only appliance you have that can be replace with a higher efficiency unit would be the water heater.Bill the tenants for water use, make copies of the water bill and have the tenants pay per sq. ft. of the space they rent.Water bills for our family properties has always been a problem.Often times the meter is not read or miss-readIf you have your own meters installed, the burden is that you have to read it every quarter.