They've already been paying taxes, they have someone staying in a trailer in the backyard to prevent squatters. 

Bryan and his team took adequate precautions to prevent damage to any of the property when doing work.

There was a Lot of false promoting of the idea of the 5 year SOL preventing banks from foreclosing, by foreclosure defense attorneys.....it was a delusion and lots of investors lost lots of money betting on that.

This is my first rental and first turn so I'm trying to nail down the best strategy for standardizing bath design to prevent mildew, reduce risk of damage, and make cleaning easier.After a lot of reading the forums, below is what I'm planning to have done.Main questions for the forums are: 1) am I missing anything?

My dilemma is whether I use my VA loan for the multi family which will turn into an investment property after I change duty stations in two years or save that VA loan for my personal residence once I establish more permanent roots upon competition of my service. 

There was a limit on how much land could be claimed by any one person to prevent abuse, which made this land useless because it couldn't be easily farmed. 

Yep you guessed it the new owners had the trees cut down and all roots removed.   

Unless I'm mistaken there's nothing that would prevent you from buying a house with an oil tank that was leaking 25 gallons a day much less a decommissioned one.

@Brian Dickerson, federal law prevents lenders from exercising the due on sale clause if you transfer the property into a trust for estate purposes, but you must remain as the beneficiary, which means that you also still have all of the liability.

(Its to prevent the co-mingling of funds) The new LLC can be owned by an existing LLC, but the SPE LLC has to be the only owner of the property.