You will learn a lot more by doing projects close to home and being involved as much as possible; investing is a full contact sport, spectators often lose their shirts.

Its never fair for the little guy.Evictions are not going to happen in a grand scale[despite the news- most tenants are paying rent].

The good news is that it gets easier and easier with each call you take and your confidence will build. 

If it is foundation issues, 10-20K for repairs is not uncommon. the good news is most foundation issues are repairable, but can get expensive.

From research a lot of corporations are headquartering there, the lower taxes, affordable housing, plus the beaches and professional sports teams has a lot of draw for millennials.

But the good news is that there are endless free resources and opportunities to learn what you need to know.

I have to give them the bad news that when they closed without a QI in place they can no longer do the 1031. 

Another piece of relatively good news is that the official U.S. unemployment rate fell for the third month in a row to 10.2% from 11.1% (and 19.2% in Los Angeles County).

https://www.nmhc.org/news/press-release/2020/nmhc-rent-payment-tracker-finds-79-percent-of-apartment-households-paid-rent-as-of-august-6/"This is a 1.9-percentage point, or 223,000-household decrease from the share who paid rent through August 6, 2019 and compares to 77.4 percent that had paid by July 6, 2020.

I tried reaching out to a local news station and they haven't jumped at the story.