2. companies you recommend for taking the class (preferably in or around Miami Beach)3. which brokers provide the best support and training for continuing education (where to hang my license and practice)?

Quote from @Tyler Sample: Oil and gas goes through cycles, so hang on and it will come back.

After closing on it, my property manager discovered through interviewing tenants that the reason the laundry room has been closed is one of the tenants would go in there, hang out and do hardcore drugs. 

Thanks for this information I'm starting to get the hang of navigating the website, I have to get accustomed to the app.

I graduated from high school with high honors, value self-education, and only need to be shown a task once to get the hang of it.

Are there people hanging out at all hours of the night or is it relatively calm and peaceful.

I can see all the neighborhood kids hanging out here.

There should be no visible signs of gang or other criminal activity - no people hanging out on corners, no graffiti, etc.It is important to note, however, that many areas are street-to-street, meaning that one street can have rows of lovely B properties, while one street over is a War Zone, so you need to look at properties within that context.

I may need to move for work in the near future, but I know that I can still hang onto this property and make money because I built 10% property management into the calculation.

That's fine, we still have the option to assign.I had tried to get the property with little earnest money since I planned on doing the deal and he had approached me, I didn't think it'd be a hang-up.