Then I kept a timeline for January  as the requested and informed land lord on the 15th ,knock on wood only failed once since Jan 2, then waited 2 more weeks to inform that its deteriorating again. 8 more times and now twice a day, I gave journal with rent warning that it’ll fail completely soon I fear. 

This is my day job, and it's been both horrifying and interesting watching our healthy capital markets gradually deteriorate into a Michael Lewis financial disaster book. 

I fixed a few things for them but most of it continues to deteriorate as the landlord repairs nothing.

@Jason Wolff Account Closed May happen as Jason alludes to but its very rare.. and with the reality of many inner city dead and dying towns its a real issue.. property is not worth what the tax's are owed so the properties just sit there and gather mold and dust and deteriorate..

The only benefit is helping my Mom who is 65 until her health deteriorates to assisted living.

They may have lucked in with a couple good tenants at the start, however, their business rapidly deteriorates with one bad tenancy or worse, a devious tenant who knows how to use the landlord-tenant laws to their advantage.

., Refinance to scale up is a powerful way to go whether residential or commercial in grade.Watch out for finance on the commercial side though.1. loan terms are generally shorter and a reset with a high LTV can get problematic at best and a nightmare at worst to get caught trying to refinance a highly leveraged property in a deteriorating market.2.

I am with you and would never even consider a suite, it isn't right and is one of the major contributors to the deteriorating social standards in your society.

I want to try and get this property ASAP as opposed to letting it sit there for months and deteriorate.

Even if you fill them with sand, unless they have been steam cleaned - which is very unlikely - there will be residual oil in the tanks and lines which will eventually make its way into the soil as the tanks deteriorate.