Over the last year and half they been sporadic with answering emails/calls and not on time with their scheduled owner payments and not getting monthly statements that show funds collected/expenses paid.

If it cost you $5000 to install, use that as your starting point.

Property Summary:List Price: $230,000Estimated Monthly Gross Rental Income*: $3,400Estimated Monthly Operating Expenses**: $1,500Net Cash Flow: $1,919I have a business partner who may be interested in either a private lending of full equity arrangement, and I want to be sure that the deal is beneficial to him.

There are about 2,000 members in the local REIA which charges $20 a month to be in, and I know of several other investment groups that are over the top charging upwards of $20,000 to join, but who is "Actually buying"?

I saw a local FB group post early this year from someone asking how to evict the homeowner from a home where the investor bought the lien a few months before.

The legislature must provide, by law, for: (1) interest on the delinquent taxes and other impositions not to exceed 1% per month on a non-compounding basis; (2) a penalty not to exceed 5% of the delinquent taxes and other impositions; (3) a period of time during which the lien cannot be enforced; (4) a procedure for claiming the excess proceeds from the sale of the property as a result of the enforcement of the lien; and (5) the authority of the tax collector to waive penalties for good cause.

My advice on investing back in the states is definitely make sure you have someone back there you fully trust (preferably with a stake in the properties success) before you do.The Tokyo Brewdog monthly meetup can be a good place to get some details on what's out there but be wary of everything you are told as Ivery found a lot of info I was getting wasn't entirely complete and found myself discussing more in some other circles with friends and colleagues these days.Happy to talk specifics sometime of you have questions. 

We are moving to a rental property in Seattle next month and the lease is already signed.

Very Simplistic example - YOUR payment is $1,000 but because of inflation that $1,000 is now worth $800, you are saving $200/month FOR THE LIFE OF THE LOAN. 

This would cost 10-12k and 2-3 months to complete2.