I therefore feel that this area will continue to appreciate its capital.

Little background info: Our objective is to continue building a portfolio of passive income rentals.

I think if you can continually show up and make contacts you will find them helpful. 

Continuing education is required every 2 years and you have to pay for those courses. 

You have a choice of losing more, pay mortgage w/ or w/o a tenant inside or continue losing more home value.   

As long as you show progress they will let you continue.

I do think oil will only continue to rise but at a slow pace.

We did advice the police of the illegal entry so it's documented should this issue surface again at a future date.Thank you again for sharing...I'm really looking forward to adding value to this project and continuing to make improvements!

There are several prebuilt CRMs for investors to use that all work about the same just with different features. 

Overall after $7500-10k in fix-up expenses I expect that I'll be able to cashflow on the property while living there for free (PITI = $1400/mo, projected avg monthly income w/ vacancy = $2,100).The plan is to continue fixing it up for the next 1-2 years then rent it out in full (either still by the room appointing a roommate as a PM or just rent the whole house).