Commercial developers are investing in this area heavily.

From there, he went on to work on commercial real estate development.

I have been on the commercial development side as well.

Anyway, I have been sitting on the sidelines listening to podcast, reading posts by others, dreaming up rental property developments on parcels of land for sale in my city area, watching flipping shows on TV.

That and a bunch of other things I guess are why we have a waiting list of applicants - referrals from existing tenants calling us up asking if we have a property we can rent to them - not even caring what side of town it is.If you have a process that explains your criteria it's not hard to turn that into stage 1 of the screening phase whereby people unlikely to qualify are identified and dissuaded from applying. 

Now the bad; the elderly woman who had ben living there had developed dementia over the years and became a hoarder.

Depends on the developer really.  

I will be working at this on a full time basis and have experience painting and plastering rental properties  I also realize I must develop a team including sub contractors. 

I would really enjoy the possibility to meet like minded individuals and see what I can learn about what's working in our market also to network and develop.

Hey guys - We were unaware of this issue, but I've created a ticket for our development team to get the issue rectified ASAP.