Laws vary state to state so rely on your own due diligence, judgement, information and opinions from licensed professionals before you make any decisions regarding this matter. 

There may be ways to modify the terms of the sale (installment sale treatment, fractional sales, tax-deferred exchanges, and so forth) so that you can split or spread the gain over a period of time so that you can effectively eliminate the Medicare Surcharge by keeping your AGI under the $200K/$250 level.

Let some of the chemicals and treatments dry out of the fresh lumber a couple of weeks before applying stain or sealant.

Is the house severely depressed because of these "eye sores".If this house is severely depressed because of the eye sores, which will be gone sooner than later than yes I would buy it.

The first treatment did the trick.

Quite the eye sore huh..  

No special tax treatment that I have ever heard of related to just short term rentals.Yeah I was going to the short term rental committee meetings downtown and the laws they were proposing didn’t look good either so I backed out of purchasing  a few properties I had lines up.Now they terminated the short term rental committee that was tasked with writing the new laws as they are letting what is going on at the state legislature level to run its course first.Do you currently own any short term rentals?

If it is well water, you may need to install some additional water treatment to get rid of it. 

It'll cost a couple of bucks and take a few minutes.Again, I'd drop some Combat Gel into the holes and place some behind the range, behind the fridge, and, if they don't have kids or pets, under the kitchen sink.Then I'd tell them that the house doesn't have roaches, but I'd done a fresh roach treatment just in case one wandered in from the street.My rental agreement says that the house has been treated for pests before the tenant moved in and that the tenant is responsible for bugs and vermin after they move in.

She has been undergoing cancer treatment and was in a care facility for six months.