I do not want to spend my nights and weekends looking at ugly houses much less flying to places to investigate.

I am trying to figure out a good way to investigate near by markets with out spending all the time driving around and counting locks.  

I own a house in the Keys and I've doubled my investigate!

You can investigate this, but I would urge you to try to read between the lines when you listen to what flippers are willing to tell you about how their business actually runs and makes money, and how owning rental properties works hand-in-hand with flipping.

Review your video if you start to see a lot of drug activity call the narcotic section ask if they want the video or make copies give it to the CAPS office tell them you would love to allow them to use any vacant apartment to conduct drug surveillance so they can build a long term investigation.

For example, I've decided to start investigating Section 8 properties. 

Don't do anything till you inspect the property yourself to investigate the complaint.

Read here: https://www.sftu.org/buyouts/If your tenants will sign up an attorney, just that action of talking to them without registering your buyout intent, may cost you an extra $30-$50k.You really do not want to end up in this group of people: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/I-Unit-S...BTW there's also some legislation under work that may make things even more complicated: https://48hills.org/2017/06/tenants-protest-farrel...And finally, watch out for a "disaster" like this one below.http://greensteinmcdonald.com/tenants-win-record-3...You can do an OMI only if you plan to use your apartment for yourself and for the foreseeable future.

Non conforming suites are only investigated based on complaints from what I understand (in Edmonton).

A better approach would be to investigate changing over to a heating system that will have the tenants paying as opposed to the owner.