@Jared Althoff The original owner had the property for decades.

you learn as you go.. takes decades

@Wayne Brooks  exactly thats whats great about tax sales in CA..... we have bought literally 100's upon 100's of tax sale properites in CA over the last 6 decades.. ( my dad started in the 60s).

I tried VA's over the last decade in various forms.I do not like it.

But I feel like the situation with the neighbor is only going to escalate and I had hoped to keep this property for another decade.  

But, for somebody that has the time and means, I would imagine you would just go back a decade (technologically speaking) and send them a contract/policy to sign manually and fax back along with a deposit for damage protection.  

They have the two biggest steady population gains in Ohio over the past decade.

That is what experienced syndicators decades and decades in the business have told me or they will not touch it as too much aggravation for the returns.Some of my friends have their securities 7 license and they tend to go into detail with me on the phone about how the DST's work.Someone comes to me with a 1031 we look at their tax implications for a failed exchange ( their tax accountant runs an analysis).

:)However, I've been a very successful Real Estate Investor for 2 decades, so I have an edge.I also invest with Partners, 12 of them.

It's tough to know if you are priced correctly with just one door, but we manage about 300 and have been tracking this metric for a decade and found that time frame to be about right.