I feel like a lot of people come here to complain about tenants, but just throwing them a bone (or a beach house) seems to go a long way.

I'm meeting a house inspector at the property today to make sure the bones are good, but from what I've seen of it - inside and outside - the house is in good condition.

Paid may give you some skin on the bone, but usually there is no real meat, you can find as much information on your own, free, if you just take the time to study. 

I think the sweet spot for me is 'medium-fixers' that still have some meat on the bone for value-added rehab.

Yeah, hopefully we get someone to throw us a bone here soon :P

If you're like me in a rural area, buying class C homes (ugly but good bones) for class C families who want to be settled prior to school starting, with rehab work that won't get finished until just before the holidays, you may not want to risk it. 

Don't run from them, just make sure they have good bones when you buy an always build up a reserve for Those costlier cap ex items.

If the seller is not cooperative you might want to assign a junior agent at your firm to do the grunt work on this and throw them a bone if it finally sells.

The back bone is very bad, and all they do is take their fee's, and run your property into the ground.

Take it down to the bare bones and then rebuild it back up.