I have several goals, but one of them is to complete a flip - as I have never done it personally but have contacts who have. 

Sorry I couldn't make the event last night, I didn't see your message until this morning but if you could PM your contact, I'd love to stay in touch and join your next meet-up!

A good number have contacted me saying they will get back to me the next day, but I have heard from no one.

@Drew Brown  Sorry for the delay, busy season.....We do rent a few more remote properties (but not too far from office) and have turned down many....A main criteria that there would be some kind of phone service, land line or access...Many areas outside of the cities have shaky cell service so not being able to have someone contact us in an emergency, to me, is not workable. 

Probably the best way to determine actual inventory in these neighborhoods would be to actually contact all the companies which list properties in them, but I probably won't take that step unless I actually find a deal within one of them, in which case it might be a good part of due diligence.

@Jameson Sullivan , is all of your information filled out on  https://www.biggerpockets.com/profile/contact?

It's best to reach out to the Tenants and figure out what they are doing before you pursue litigation, and risk alienating them when they could've just forgotten.If it were me, I would contact the Tenant and remind them that the option period has passed, so you assume they are moving out, and ask them to make it official in writing. 

I think I’m gonna contact some local contractors.

I don’t know if I would be a good team member myself, but I’ve built up a decent team myself and I might be able to offer some contacts.  

Would contact a RE lawyer about this, but given that it's weekend, I wanted to ask here first, since it's urgent:We're in Los Angeles, in a single family NON RSO property.