Maybe you can shed some light on cost savings as it relates to, retaining 1 part of the original structure (in the event of a teardown-rebuild scenario), where be it, a wall or a prescribed portion of the original structure is retained, per the request of the city/county? 

(Picky) tenant is complaining about a dead rodent smell coming from the walls.

Within 9 months of ownership we have already replaced the roof, hot water heater, remodeled the entire living room due to a cockroach infestation inside of the walls.

For my questions below, imagine a vacant house of 4 years with roof damage (so expect drywall damage, mold etc)Wholesalers - If you have a house gutted and down to the studs and bones, are your investors more hesitant or less hesitant to buy than if the walls were up and debris scattered around?

When Wall Street started to heavily securitize mortgage notes from 2001~2007, they were put in pools as investments and registered with the SEC.

Although my building isn't new, the only thing not being replaced is going to be the exterior walls and 2/3 of the roof so my thought was that it should maybe be appraised using the cost approach since it's close to being new construction from that perspective.

I'm buying more in Shaker than University Heights, but just finished up one up at 3510 Raymont over there, pretty big job, we were moving walls. 

Make sure door sweeps are on external doors, make sure there are no gaps round the doors, make sure all holes eg plumbing fixtures under sinks are sealed, pipes going through walls are foamed up to seal, and so forth.

I'm excited to meet others who share an interest and passion in real estate.A big thanks to everyone who took the time to read this wall of text, and I look forward to hearing everyone's thoughts

I wanted to use a contract that I plan to work with in the future, but you're correct @Mark Gallagher in that I may have chosen to only have them as my mold remediators (for two houses getting mold remediation of all exterior and interior walls I figured $20K was pretty reasonable btw) and I was going to get a different contractor for the house restoration and remodel as I felt his quotes were a bit high.