Just curious what you have found to be most effective in your bandit sign campaigns.  

We tend to stay out of the city, but mainly because I don't think my management style would be effective there.

Traditional Mortgage won't work on this house, unfortunately, as it needs a new roof and there had been some water damage in one room in the house, necessitating removal of drywall (it was caught quickly and there is no mold or mildew.

The other option that we've had success with is to offer "cash for keys" to get them to leave sooner and without doing damage.  

I look at it like 20k or so minimum then maybe 2500 to 5k a door up to a certain amount.better to be safe than sorry and its not like the money is spent its in your account and you could do very short term investmetns with it as well.. like short term lending. ( carefully)Most investors that run into trouble are simply undercapitalized have too much debt and when they have a bad day they can't get their units up and running and it becomes a cascading effect.

Last hurricane to do damage to Oahu was Iwa in 1982.  

Continuing with the scenario, let's say the property gets damaged and the new owner has insurance and the insurance proceeds go to the new owner and not jointly to us.

"Appliances are provided for the convenience of the renter only, and any damage will be deducted from the security deposit", and similar type wording.

Maintain good credit habits and remove the negative1 - You want to get rid of collections or inquiries that will damage your credit score.

Just remember that you will eventually get by with something else but remember who is involved and how that will effect them?