The interior had gorgeous hardwood floors under the carpet, and large rooms all around on a large lot.

My suggestion: buy a quality small MF that needs paint and carpet, even that is difficult enough if you are remote!

I'd personally rather stay at a hotel in BBL with daily service, cleaning and staff that I can talk to. 

After they left, we cleaned it up and posted on the Craigslist with 40% higher rent than previous tenant paid.

Development is the notorious part of real estate which looks really clean on paper and process but is seldom profitable when you need it to be.

Your lender most likely requires you to occupy within 30 days of purchase, so make the seller remove them so you have time to clean/repair after closing. 

Our choice was to repaint and put in new carpet to replace the new carpet they damaged. 

He took depreciation on the prop, claimed the kids I’ve had primary custody of, and likely pocketed the returns.I am in the process of trying to engage a communicative/experienced accountant to assist in cleaning this mess up asap and fortunately our amazing bookkeeper of approx 8 years is very knowledgeable and responsive.

Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS has launched new online tools to streamline clean energy credits.

We also collect a cleaning fee and security deposit for each rental.