Home to The Ohio State University with nearly 60,000 students, 5 fortune 500 companies, over +25% population change since 2000, 2016 smart city challenge award winner gaining 50 million dollars in funding from the government ( https://www.columbus.gov/smartcity/), Intel is spending 20 Billion dollars to build two semiconductor plants, and many many more great things presently and coming in the future.

Your property and ratings will suffer and this niche is becoming ever more competitive.

We didn't suffer any drop off during the pandemic nor after.We are about 30% booked for 2024 right now.

If you go online you will find tons of data about companies moving their headquarters and additional plants to San Antonio.

I think Sanford's push to absorb Jonesboro is a great move and merging those economies and making it a single downtown that is much larger will plant a great seed for what Sanford may become in 40-50 years from now.

I am talking clean up and very basic planting to make it look good.

A solution I've had that works wonders if able is to go to the tenant, have a heart to heart conversation, tell them it's just not working out and as a result you're suffering too. 

You can also pay a security deposit in part, if your rental security is $750, that may be rather excessive to secure financial risks without a tenant taking possession, you could accept $250 today and the balance due upon the date of the lease term prior to possession.Keeping deposits must be justified as to some financial damage suffered, a tenant who fails to perform by taking possession in just a few days doesn't create a loss equal to a month's rents as they never took possession.

Is there a school or a cement plant going in across the road. 

It is another to deal with the roller coaster of emotions that arise from tenant abuse.If you are going to make this a rental property be prepared to say good bye to all of the little details that make this house an emotional treasure trove.The tree that you planted as a child will soon have a tire swing hanging from it and the ground underneath will be barren.