You'll get some additional benefits with a CSS if you replace an item as you'll be able to claim loss deduction, and also your heirs might benefit if they inherit a property with CSS (too bad you have to die for that though).And then there is the question of the value of money now, vs in the future, or the future value of invested tax saving.So, now that I gave you (most of) all the balls, try and juggle them all in the air and see how it goes for you.I can tell you I choose to spend the money and get CSS for two of my SFR rentals.

Each month got easier as the tenants learned we meant business, and inherited tenants left and we replaced with better tenants that we had screened.Our building had a lot of deferred maintenance. 

Can someone just confirm that I'm thinking correctly on this matter that just came up please...I'm buying a duplex here in central Arkansas and there is a tenant already in place in one of the sides that has lived the...

You have a tenant you are inheriting and I will bet the portion that MHA pays is at least $750/mo and the tenant is responsible for the other $200. 

We are inheriting the renters and lease from the previous owner.

Writing grandma a $2k check is better than one's inheritance going down by >$2k AND taking care of your elders is the right thing to do anyways. 

The pregnant one will often stock up on calories and go laterally 30 feet or so looking for a new food source for her spawn, potentially infecting a neighboring unit.When I was an undergrad, I inherited bed bugs from a previous tenant.

You inherit them but you need an application on file for each adult tenant.

My mom recently inherited a house from her dad after he passed.

This is not always easy to determine, because the defaulting taxpayer according to the county may have, for example, passed away without a will and left ten kids, each of whom inherited a 1/10th interest in the property.