Your state law should outline a process for how to take the property back if its truly abandoned, but this sounds more like it will have to become an eviction.

It may sound like I'm acting helpless, but I think many people overestimate what beginners know.For what it's worth, I'm looking to buy and hold a property and rent it out for cash flow.

The programs I have come across that offer an online portal have a minimum property limit of 10+.It also sounds like your agent does not have the best process in place. 

The current landlord started putting in carpet to reduce noise complaints.Of course carpet is expensive to replace and a lot of tenants destroy the carpet.In the past, I've always Costco laminate floors,  zero carpet, in all rentals.

Stay with oil,  replace the tanks and the oil furnaces with new tanks and units.2.

The "fix" is to wack the switch so it works again.In 2 years I've replaced it 3 times.

It was featured in the last podcast episode and sounds like a great landing page

Sounds like you have a great plan in place already.

You said "next" so it sounds like you have an asset or two that might have some equity you could use. 

This has been discussed in other threads going back for months, esp the number of condo projects now coming online, when you have a building with a few hundred units completed it’s going to have a major effect on the YoY numbers when the whole county new listings are only around 4000 per month. https://seattlebubble.com/blog/2018/06/12/around-the-sound-king-county-sees-the-biggest-gains-in-listings/