Don't fight the lemon, insist on lemonade, in a tall glass with ice, on a white sand beach under an umbrella.

You can become president of the U.S. by being smart and becoming very educated, but it sucks when you can't drive yourself to the store to buy some ice cream.

Anything above and beyond that will be icing on the cake.

From the initial looks of this, I'm thinking gut the entire inside to the studs and considering dry ice blasting, and then test to get a clearance letter before hanging new drywall, new insulation, flooring, etc.

Hi, off the top of my head, a few; Your operating business pays rent and lowers the taxable income, your next landlord business takes it as income and offsets it with the expenses that can exceed those of the operating business since you might have an ice cream parlor, knda hard to write off property management expenses, but not hard for a real estate holding company to do so.

However, there is a slide in ice maker close to the sink area that doesn't work.

Some nicks and dings certainly fall under normal or expected wear and tear, I would think in a neighborhood where it could be assumed that you might rent to a Christian tenant, that it would be reasonable to assume they might celebrate Christmas in a customary fashion and decorate the outside of the home for the season, where the wind blows and ice may form.

A bag of ice hung over the thermostat will fix that.

I am walking on thin ice here?

It's my understanding that we're still coming out of the last ice age.