That way you can show investors and friends how well you perform.

Great advise, especially the part about giving the buyers a deadline to perform. 

I don't believe in profiling people via race/ethnicity, but rather, their CREDENTIALS and their individual performance.

People are buying and selling boarded-up homes in Cuyahoga County regularly, but I do not imagine that there are POS inspections before ANY of those Title transfers, where the price paid is often just land value.And as far as being able to rent out any bought property in Ohio, I have heard from a company that performs home inspections that "unfortunately, Ohio does NOT have any pre-tenanting inspection requirements". 

I would highly recommend that you pay to have a title search performed on the properties that you plan on bidding on if you decide to continue bidding in these auctions. 

I would highly recommend doing a multi-day workshop on each side (performing and non-performing).

The problem with using your vacation rental is that you'll be wanting it at peak season when you should be focused on it performing at peak season.

For example I know US Bank has a special program for small commercial mortgages in which they can perform an in-house appraisal based primarily on income.

Based on my research, as the Jeep plant in town goes so goes the economy - it was one KPI (key performance) indicator that was a helpful bell weather.

Truthfully, diversifying would probably be best, anyway, so having strong performers in each category would be best.