It needs to be moved cleaned out after the previous tenant. 

For $45/month, you get $5,000 in rental coverage for things like missed rent, excessive damage, excessive cleaning, pet damage, and eviction costs.

Compare that to your offered purchase price and surely it would be more profitable for him to wipe his hands clean and let you take over.

We cleaned it up, sealed any holes we could see and went on with renting it out. 

Learned about clean out, demo, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, flooring, design, floor plans, functionality of a home, landscaping, and all the nerves and excitement that come with this business!

You can probably find basics of these forms online and then have a local attorney clean them up and make them compliant for your state (or the lawyer could draft them although they'd be a bit more expensive).

Just a little landscaping and cleaning goes a long way.3.

This is called a Deed in Lieu Foreclosure or Deed in Lieu (DIL).As an option to avoid a long drawn-out foreclosure process (more painful for the lender than the borrower), your friend might be able to negotiate a deal with her lender to accept the property and wipe the slate clean.

So we ditched them and used more scented cleaning supplies. 

I've heard of mentees who started cleaning up construction areas on a flip at the end of each work day or picking up supplies at Home Depot and delivering them to the job site.