It has triple axles underneath with six tires, with full air in them.

You paint the underneath of your roof inside your attic with it.

Another company throws a reactive plan for $100/year and an annual (upon renewal) visual inspection (the guy walks around the house with the long stick and lifts dirt underneath of mulch).

I've left the financing paragraph underneath the sales price blank for my first few offers.

Ask for tenant estopels which are forms filled out by the tenants letting you know how much they pay, their deposit and lease terms.If you don't know expenses make a bunch of cold calls to owners on craigslist with similar properties and let them know you are new to the business (people usually like to help others if you approach it correctly) and are currently in escrow to buy a 5 unit property (don't tell them the exact size or location just in case they are snakes and try to swoop in and buy it from under neath you) and wanted to get their opinions on rents, vacancies and expenses.Keep track of this info, see if you can see a unit they have for rent and keep a chart on these properties so you can compare to your own.If you are buying larger apartment complexes check out IREM.Good luck but be careful.

But he's not a US citizen, and he didn't do it on US soil.

I also feel that way about my day job as a soils/foundation engineer.

Those really need to go.Painting and replacing knobs many buyers these days are keen on that trick and it's been used up.Also looking underneath the foundation it looked like one of the columns needed shoring up and the brickwork was deteriorating and would need some repair as well.I would totally redo the tubs and the kitchen.Kitchen and Baths sell a home and you don't want to give a retail buyer a negative as to why NOT to buy it.

bathroom sink leaks underneath.

Their home is underwater (bought for 500k+ in '05, recent comps price it at 141k-200k).Here are additional details:-Current on payments, next payment due early next month, cannot make February payment because of engineering fee and temporary housing costs (family is staying at a hotel)-Both spouses have excellent credit, high 700’s to 800-Lender is BoA, outstanding balance on loan is 315k on fixed loan with 10 years left -House is red tagged by city, city requires engineer to do soil samples and analyze hillside risk post-landslide in order release the red tag status-Filed a natural disaster forbearance to suspend the payment-Filed claim request secondary to homeowners insurance denying the claim -Preliminary report by geotechnical engineer estimates 80k-200k to repair and install proper drainage to hillside adjacent to house-Property repairs estimated to be around 10k-Property damage:o Carpet o A couple windowso Dry Wallo Mold—water pooling from the back door, no proper dry out has been done (probably much more additional work/costs on top of original homeowner 10k estimate)They're thinking about filing for bankruptcy and foreclosing on the home.