Lawn Care: Regular upkeep, normally the tenant's job on single family residences stated in the lease.7.

I don't care if they bring in a couple kids, just wasn't sure how to handle it. 

Donate the Property: Donating the property to a qualified charitable organization can provide you with a charitable deduction equal to the property’s fair market value and eliminate capital gains taxes.Implementing these strategies requires careful planning and consideration of your specific financial situation.

That 'other' land trust company absolutely blew it on the closing process causing us all to lose some hair during that period, but we did exit the deal with a great profit.  

Any time you use a HELOC, you only want to use 50 percent of the available equity or less so if you can do that over time carefully, it will work.

A few ideas:I would start by asking the tenants if they really care about the utility costs since Landlord is supplying the appliances.

Yes, it's easy to ask you these questions after the fact, but you won't succeed unless you carefully review your mistakes and learn from them.Not sure I agree with your statement, "RTR knew they’d messed up".

Taking care of someone's asset is a responsibility that you should not take lightly. 

In my experience, if you take care of the tenant you will likely see that average to be true.  

And it also means to attack everything like it's your Mom's, like it matters, truly matters, because if you only care about a paycheck you are not serving your looking to be served.