I have seen for larger projects developers or flippers bus in crews from less busy states to get high quality contractors looking for work.Larger flippers or ground up development companies can build for say 85 per sq ft where smaller investor with 1 property might be 120 a foot.

The contractors will support their returning customers or larger jobs more intensly then smaller low margin jobs with a new client. 

Compensation of some sort should not be objectionable to them.

I feel that im getting to know the larger players in the market by doing that. 

@Don Carey in my area you can get them from the title companies - all sorts - very specific.

If anyone could recommend an agent with knowledge of small multifamily (or larger) and excellent property managers I could talk to, I would appreciate it!  

Or should I just forget about even trying to evicting them, especially with kids I heard it can get messy (even though Paterson is said to be "sort-of" easy for eviction) and back-out of the deal, especially if the ceiling mess looks way worse than we thought (even though that was already considered a total gut-job) and since we put no deposit down, we technically have no loss (besides some damaged relationships w/ the broker)?

and continue paying for the mortgage on the first house whilst the second house sorts it self with rental.really what i am asking here is where does one live after their first investment purchase. do you rent somewhere else  and buy your first house for rental? 

There is a larger pool of buyers looking to buy to own vs investors.  

I have two properties in CO and being able to deal with non-paying tenants swiftly via the law is important, especially for investors like myself looking to get into much larger multi-unit properties.Your thoughts or experiences?