Gist of the idea is you develop your marketing advertisement (think: car magnet), hire a driver who is already actively driving around (Lyft, Uber, etc), and have someone (or many someones) marketing your company while they drive. 

Can I remove carpeting, doors, toilets, sinks, place a dumpster in driveway, blocking garage usage?

Perhaps new appliances and bedroom/bath doors throughout.

I want a really good area if I'm paying $54k per door. 

I asked my PM who has managed 100's of doors for many years if he knows of any case of any of his landlords getting sued for a big amount of money.

Taking this side door approach to find investors to back you has proven to be very successful."

I have a home that is right at 81 pecent LTV or Loan to value I live in Jacksonville Fl .I initially financed the home as an investment property and have asked the Mortgage company to drop the PMI insurance.They state that the LTV should be at 70 percent and if the property is appraised by their people and meets the 70 baseline they will drop the PMI insurance.I* reside in the home have homestead on the house and have the address on my drivers license.

From what I've seen, most people are using Cash-on-Cash ratio, ROI or Cash Flow ($100 per door, $150 per door) as their Go or No-Go numbers.  

My current inventory is 304 credits.In any event, there's clearly a ton of growth potential right next door to Seattle, to the north.

Most come through the door want to buy something for $50k and sell it for $100k and oh yeah they dont want to have to co any repairs and they want to finance it with 5% down or worse yet no money down seller financing because they read a book they bought off of late night tv.I wandered a bit there. short sales take longer than bank owned property and the negotiation is more convoluted. you can literally work on a short sale for 2 months only to have the bank foreclose anyhow. there really isnt much benefit to the seller consequently its hard to keep their head in the game when the going gets tough.