The larger brokerages are usually too prohibitive and costly, lots of oversight and charging a lot of excess fees in addition to hefty commission split.

It also has a large flat upper roof area, although not sure if it could be used for something or not. 

Your excessive use of ALL CAPS shows your overly emotional investment to a very low stakes situation.

For properties under $50,000 where HUD offers a flat $1250 commission to each agent the percentages are skewed but the number is somewhere in the minus $2500 + 5 to 6% as the minimum acceptable although occasionally a computer glitch(I assume the software was not set up for a flat fee commission) the counter will come back at minus $2500. 

Brendan,In banking terms you might be "Risked out" meaning too many mortgages which equal "Excessive Tradelines" and those two things equal high risk.

@Diane StinebaughPre-packaged agreeable gray flat from Sherwin Williams. 

I don't like family transfers unless they are a flat-out gift, but they can be advantageous.

Do you find their maintenance and repair fees fair or excessive?

We have chosen to upgrade to flat top stoves and self cleaning ovens that are black.

Tenant claims they were not like this when he moved in (I bought this house with these tenants in place a few years ago, so I never saw the house without stuff in it until they moved out)  For all I know they swell and buckle in the summer and sit flat in the winter.