Your ability to walk away is your greatest strength as a real estate investor.What was the biggest misconception you had?

Even desperate though, this owner would literally walk away empty handed - no cash and no property.

Owners have options to use their preferred contractors or OneRent's contractors (handyman charges $65/hour).They screen tenants as 2.5x income/rent, and do 6 months walk through check.It sounds a professional management way. 

If I'm being honest with myself, I probably should have walked away from these based on that alone, especially coupled with #3 below.3.

The support team is always happy to hop on a Video Call with me to walk me through the solution if I can't understand it via email.

Thanks @Remington Lyman.Salvatore - as a foreign national there are some constraints for sure.Happy to walk through some options to see if we can assist.

Not a lot you can do about location or the neighbors.It would also be worth doing another walk through of the property.

The only thing she did was walk through the homes with us.

Because you admit you do not know the structure, traps and pitfalls of subject to, you need an attorney that is experienced in contracts to walk you through this.

Occasionally you can buy a side-by-side, which offers a very different life style, as you don't hear your neighbor walking around upstairs.