Hey Jay,As a fell CA native and buy and hold out of state investor, I can empathize with your current state of affairs. 

It does not react well to water......I would just paint it to seal it...

Some people STR a literal 100 sq ft Native American teepee...doubt you'll find many takers for LTR on that thing.That said, portfolio diversity is important for lots of reasons. 

Let the cops handle it as you never know how a parent might react to some guy asking about their kids and following them. that is scary **** and you might end up being arrested - not them. 

Florida ....and the population of Canada is a lot more than FL.Vaccination is fortunately not as much of a political football here and people actually understand science so I expect that there will be some very vocal people groaning but most people will welcome the chance to show their love for their elders and neighbours...Canada definitely has a lot of warts (a la native Americans) but being pro life is definitely not one of our warts :-) 

I'm looking at MFHs in a fairly competitive market and am seeing a few interesting listings from the early fall/summer and am wondering if I should dig deeper on them or just focus on reacting quickly to newer listings.

If they don’t respond or react quick enough in this market, how do I know that they can secure what I want when time is of the essence?

If a consultant found out that we werent referring them, how do you think they would react?

Poor people have low value (to worthless) things, and things that are not are financed.Written into a lease or not, I still think (Trying) to take something of value from these people will result in a physical fight or a gun being pulled.Texas is a hard to collect state, but turning a smoke stained 11 year old big screen into $100 at the pawn shop hardly seems worth the drama/effort/personal risk.Some people will kill each other over McDonalds Chicken nuggets being out of stock--you never know how people will react to this.

First a little background:I'm a 32 year old Nashville native and purchased my first home here back in October of 2014, a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom 1275 square foot ranch.