We install the 2 inch faux wood blinds, curved shower curtain rods, white appliances (easy to match).

Its cold, snowy, icey, and dark at 5 pm, not to mention the holiday season and faux holidays.I will do shorter than 1 year or longer than one year to get expiration in the Mar to Oct times. 

A lot of the World War 1 vintage buildings in Chicago have brick issues that should be addressed when you do the tear off roof.

I just purchased a small multifamily and I intended to replace the apartment entry doors but then realized that the doors are vintage custom glass doors.

I left the tenants in place and started using a portion of their rent to upgrade the exteriors, new roof, new faux stone front, paint stucco, repair gutters, paint trim, and cut down over grown bushes and trees.

The jewelry will always be fake, the records will always be worn out, the "collectibles" will always be worthless, the furniture will always be particle-board trash, there will always be stuff you don't want to see, and you will always be able to practically smell, feel, and taste the human misery of the thing.

Nothing to the extent of the duplex, no clown graffiti, vintage pornography or colony of dead mice.

Tenants paying 1400-1800/mo for a rental in a nice neighborhood expect 2" faux wood blinds or shutters.

Every now and then I will see these in their own Treasury auctions along with cars, boats, planes, jewelry, etc.If they were notified in the original foreclosure action, probably they have certain time frame to respond....Not sure if it will tell you what you need to know, but you might check this website.https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/m...I would plan on paying them off, but maybe you get lucky and they drop them.   

I will say that in Indianapolis we were buying 2000's vintage 200+ unit properties for ~110k/unit two years ago, last year they were trading in the $130k/unit range, and I've seen current on market listings closer to $145k/unit.