If that doesn't get you anywhere I would start pounding on the PSC (public service commission) They oversee con ed and if you file a PSC complaint it will open their eyes and ears and sometimes gets things done.

@Ben G.I read your article, and pound my fist on the table with new investors when I tell them to stay out of the lower-quality areas.

Some places want you to just pay the "move-out" fee and they're taking a pound of flesh from you when they sell, other places genuinely would want to buy it.I saw in this discussion something about it unethically restricting the right of the homeowner to alienate his or her property, and I think that would be a good argument if it were a bylaw, but not when the right of first refusal is given to the Association/Mgmt Company as part of the covenants created when the parcel was set out. 

Let him know that you are always looking for (Locating real estate) good real estate deals, that you'd be willing to be a locator for him or partner up on a great equity based property - would he be interested in working with you, giving you a referral fee.Let him know that you have some skills in pounding the payment- farming and power prospecting, that you are always talking to motivated sellers --Ask him what kind of deals he likes - meet him -- have lunch -- ask lots of questions --Call him every opportunity you can - tell him about a FSBO you just discovered, a tax sale motivated sellers, a seller on Craig's List, a motivatedexpired listing.Remember you got to GIVE to GET!

I just have my 230 pound handyman step on every inch of the seams with his feet.

The key is knowing how to "work backwards" to calculate the value, you are buying this 88 unit building by the pound rather than on the income approach.

You need to have your realtor pound, nicely, the buyers agents who have come, or will come, to view it to find out why buyers do not want to make an offer.

(Note: if the neighbors can see in, maybe alert them before doing this, to avoid unwanted 9-1-1 calls.

There is a reason we have the old saying "penney wise, pound foolish."

Get a big can, like a 5 pound coffee can.