., via a lease or land contract), but it requires gathering evidence like comparable sales or repair estimates.For professional assistance, firms like Resnick Law, P.C., based in Southeast Michigan, specialize in property tax appeals and have over 20 years of experience challenging unfair assessments.

Because we are financing most of it, when there are repairs, how would you factor those costs into our son's ownership?

Those are often your big ticket repairs. 

I am open to any names that you would be willing to share and putting together a list of repairs/tasks to run past them to gage their interest. 

If they have been properly maintained and the landlord is quick on future repairs that come up, they should never be empty (I have been doing student rentals in New Paltz, NY since 2004). 

Do you have an in-house repair staff?

Many tenants don't clean as well as as a homeowner would leading to complaints down the road.A 3 piece is much easier to keep clean, requires basically zero maintenance and is much easier to repair or replace if damaged.

Here is the main part of getting a good property: how experienced is he at assessing the needed repairs on a property?

Repairs/Maintenance4.

At first , I went with the quick fix , cheap repair.