It needs paint, flooring, minor plumbing, small carpentry jobs, landscaping and hvac work.I plan on renting the home and I'm looking for advice on decorating.

I would leave the overgrowth and trim it, add it into the landscaping and fix/clean the flooring.  

If I can add a garage or do some landscaping or have some appreciation to up the value while he's paying the expenses that's a bonus.

I grew up landscaping with my dad in and around that area and lived 10 minutes away.

My understanding is that I also can not set as a criteria that someone has experience with landscaping, or something like that. 

When I run the numbers using 10% for vacancy, 10% for capex, 10% for management, 10% for maintenance and repairs, $550 for landscaping, propetry taxes and insurance I expect to get at least $$2,500 in monthly cash flow. 

With siding and Roof and paving driveway and landscaping.. you're probably looking at 80-90k Rehab.

Probably not the first choice for most, but they are based in OH, so at least understand the local landscape.

Current owner of the lot is offering to pay for moving the tank but not the landscaping (it would make a mess to move the tank).

                     $220 Vacancy/minor repairs/maintenance                    $220 a month for water/sewer/trash/landscape/snow (actual should be way less)                     $1000 debt serviceNET loss of $160 a month      The cash flow is terrible of course, but that is mainly from the outsized taxes which was from what I can tell from tax records an extra school levy, total taxes for 2016 were  $2341 on same valuation.