Be careful, the ADA only recognizes dogs for service animals, but residential rentals fall under Fair Housing that accepts any animal(s) as ESA's, and violations of the Fair Housing Act are very expensive. 

I would add to the good advise you have received thus far, if you do decide to purchase for cash at an auction be very careful of the purchase price..

You can possibly do it if you carefully ask yourself these questions:1) how much can I afford each month to hold a subject property?

Be careful about rushing tenant placement, you're better off with a brief vacancy and a good quality tenant than rushed with a poor quality.

It's all the numbers that don't change very often.The dashboard is missing the things I care most about.Watching the rent received number rise is the funniest part of being a landlord.A rent delinquency is high priority.

Ugly so it's completely open, and has one hell of an open floor plan.

For the cold weather folk that are do it yourself types. Is there a special way you prepare your property's lawn for winter? Anything special or anything to avoid? #Minnesnowta

People who want to sell probably don't care and the other 99% of people will hate your guts either way.

Your best option is to hire a reportable lawn care company and increase the rent to cover the fee.We assign snow removal, grass cutting and keeping of the gardens within of our leases.

Others have ulterior or competing motives and simply get in the way of an investor.