Plus living in a neighborhood where your family is uncomfortable going for a walk at night time is no way to live.

Tough to answer without knowing if there is any equity in the property, but 600 a month sounds like it is uncomfortable.

To be honest, it never occured to me to check on utilities when a tenant moves out.Check that your locality is allowed to add liens to your property, if you had not been in possession of it when those charges occured.In Georgia utilities are not allowed to do it, but yhe water company does it routinely and will lie straight into your face until you produce the law.

I truly understand how difficult finding the time can be, but beyond developing systems, creating a routine has been the most helpful thing I have done.

I routinely pick up certain RT flights for 9K points, and those points can sometimes be earned with less than $2K in total spend.Play it right and the banks pay you to use their cards - I've done it for years.Slip up though an it'll cost you dearly.

However, we are not sure what they are actually doing given the lack of routine maintenance.

If you're really uncomfortable with the tenants, put another condition in your offer that the current owner vacates all tenants at least X amount of time before closing...and you get to inspect again once it's vacant.

That is the reason I feel uncomfortable to collect the late fee again even though the tenant told me she is ok with it.

So the "set out signs on Friday/remove signs on Sunday" routine isn't fool proof.Does anybody know how to get around this?

Seems like something like that might have come up in routine conversations.None of the children or grandchildren were around when he died to have input into the arrangements?