NOPE - I had faucet off and new one on and then the drain piece broke, actually fell out bc of the pressure I had gently applied and was already broken anyway - just waiting to fall apart in my hands.

I've been driving for dollars as of late, and I finally found a home that looks to be abandoned (overgrown landscape, mailbox completely full, broken windows, and the whole nine).

If you look at almost any architecture photograph (the rule is broken sometimes), every vertical edge of the space is actually vertical in the image.

Without sounding like a broken record -- I'm just starting out hoping to grow long term.

Is the property truly habitable - as in: no creepie crawlies, leaking roof, broken plumbing, etc?

For a $200K house to need $75K worth of work, it would have had to been in a fire, have a serious foundation issue, an airplane fall on it, a broken pipe in the attic that leaked for several months without anyone noticing.. and even that would be a stretch.

All of them have rather old, outdated kitchens - chipped, broken linoleum tile, 70's style cabinets with minimal storage space, and older appliances.

Unless they are broken or leaking, your payback on that will take many many years.  

oops.Check your state laws, but if you had been in CO, you would certainly have broken the law.

One major one is that on a very cold winter day they set the thermometer to be lower than 40F (they didn't stay inside the house) and the pipe to the dishwasher (in the kitchen on the first floor) got broken.