If you are a small investor you should use a small PM firm, a big company will not give a small customer a high level of service, they will put their efforts into their big customers. 

If they don’t do anything, you covered your bases by making the effort.

Easy to sweep or mop, looks nice and shiny with minimal effort, and can be covered with a rug if someone wants to.

I know as a landlord we have to provide reasonable and good efforts to fix this issue, but reflooring without a rent increase seems above and beyond "reasonable".And hey, thanks for reading my long and lengthy post!

This is why they will cut relief lines in the concrete, as an effort to control where the concrete will crack.

We spent time, efforts, and money upgrading every part of this house that needed it.

We spent time, efforts, and money upgrading every part of this house that needed it.

My big question would be could you take the cash from the sell, reinvest it into an equal or better opportunity (cash flow, appreciation potential, and effort)  in the area you live?

Not really worth my time and effort. 

The problem is the amount of learning you'd have to do just to know what a good non-performing note looks like THEN have to go through foreclosure only to move in is way more effort than you'd have to expend to just purchase a house traditionally.