However, unless you are rather experienced with this type of damage, it may be hard for your to tell whether it's a tear-down or rebuild situation. 

Anyway,  I'm having difficulties with my insurance company, at least that they decided to drop my insurance due to some vague issues.   

Majority of experienced landlords here do not hold tenant back, wanting to move out fine.

Make sure the CPA you hire is experienced in cross border tax planning and working with international investors.

I'm under contract for a duplex and part of the qualifications for the loan was income earned by tenants. One of them is all of a sudden breaking lease and this could up end qualification for the loan. How do I have o...

I am sure some of the landlords who are working with property management companies have experienced this before; just trying to get a feel if my expectations are different than others.

There is some good information here, but as others have stated, it looks like your cash flow or lack of is due more to your investment set up, than to your PM.As a Property Manager myself, a few points:It sounded like you are experiencing excess turn over through tenants breaking the lease early - there is a way to handle that.

Anyone know of an experienced Real Estate Attorney in Roanoke?

As this is my first rental property I would love to hear from more experienced people to hear about the errors you initially made, or just things you had wished you'd done differently, so I can learn from you and start off on my best foot.

There is definitely money to be made, but given given that much of Detroit is a war zone, you may have difficulty obtaining a good property manager that can run your out of state investment.