I later heard but never exactly why, that the place was an absolute money pit and the buyer, who was very experienced, regretted buying it big time.It is interesting, but I ALWAYS do at least a bit of research on the prior owners and have found few "hard luck" stories, at least as far as either higher or high priced single fams go, they're by far the same story where the owner makes the financial decision to walk away, mainly due to the insane HELOC's etc they were giving out, like 125% of home's current value back in like 2006, so now they'll owe literally like $750k on a home that IF in great shape would at best fetch $500k, PLUS they trashed or semi-trashed the place, so they'd be really lucky to get $400k as is and often they may be business owners or whatever and have a relationship with a local bank who will then know "the whole story" behind the big hit they take to their credit score and not treat it nearly as harshly as the average Joe, who's practically banned from even entering the bank for years!

And that's the harsh kiss of reality, right, ya get what you pay for.... 

Bashing Loanman, Missingascrew, & Art Vandalay does nothing but further provoke the harsh criticism you shall receive.

You will get efficiencies of scale with chemicals and service calls.

This might sound harsh but not intended to be. 

Painting with Kiltz or Zinsser BIN will seal the smell, stain and chemicals for a while, but they may eventually come back.  

We washed the concrete with a garden hose and chemicals.

I joined bigger pockets a while back but had to focus on paying my way through school and passing a dual major in Chemical Engineering and Paper Science Engineering.

Quote from @Robin Simon: Quote from @Erik Estrada: Don has a harsh way of putting it, but on the surface, I completely agree. 

Punishment seems way too harsh on those folks.