I tried a personal Facebook page for awhile and I quickly get fed up with the voluminous posts about meaningless details of my "friends" life. 

Write the letters addressing the problem, and call the Feds if it doesn't get resolved.Nancy Neville

@Ritch Bonisa  I looked at the Video @Matthew Jonovich   all in 69k.. they are little box's so I guess if that is what it turns out to bemy guess is land was less than 1k  morris making his 5k or so per deal builder making 10k per houses leaves about 50k to build 900 sq ft with no garage and no landscaping other than the city will probably make them throw grass seed.. rent probably wont make 900 in that area .. just because that's 200 over any thing else.

@Brandon Watson, The tax deed trumps EVERYTHING except local government liens, like grass cutting liens, demolition liens, sewer assessment liens, and sometimes fire dues and library dues. 

During the water problem...I was also threatened by the landlord to keep the water sprinkler system on the lawn no matter what and if I didn't she would send a maintenance guy over to turn my water on because the grass needed to stay green at all cost even though water was running through the walls.

Property management is a service just like having your oil changed, or your grass cut.

(I also send postcards and other things that may fish some leads but that is expensive and yields low results so I've kind of gotten fed up with wasting money on that stuff.)Please let me know if I am missing anything or if someone can point me in the right direction in terms of learning the ins and outs of this niche.

Feds, they send in some stuff, 1099's etc..As for your taxes, youowe straight up income tax on every nickle you make... in the year the property sold if you held it less than a year. 

Apologies if this is in the wrong place -If you have a SFH property with a grass yard - who does the maintenance?

Generally speaking the grass just looks greener over here from where you are, you will be competing with local flippers.