Recently, one guy said the value was adequate, but they wanted me to pressure wash the front sidewalk.

When it would rain hard, the school was canceled because the roads were washed out.

The second appraisal required a list of items to be done, add hand rails to front and back steps (a common request), some other minor stuff but the kicker was he required me to remove some rotten wood from the shed in the back and paint the entire thing.  

Someone buried an old washing machine drum in the flower bed in front of the apartment -- redneck planter perhaps?  

It was a wash, in my opinion, and was the first and last time I'd bought tickets.I've seen articles that suggest that the people who spend the most on tickets are those who can least afford it, and that kinda sucks.  

I think the OP's original thought was he could leave one unit available for his use as a primary residence, but would spend most nights taking care of his parents at their apartment.

Wash walls with TSP: I would do this myself - can I wash the walls and then wait 2 weeks to paint or does it need to be done right away?

As I cannot offer ideas to you about how good or solvent the RE market is in the areas you suggest, I would mention that a different approach you can take is to use BP to search the membership for investors, agents, brokers, attorneys and other RE professional in the target area, and then pose your same question to them.Another thing to try is to just go onto one of the RE online sites (like Zillow), search the area, find a local realtor and cold call them.  

The Vatican Bank is well known for laundering money from criminal organisations.Once it's been washed it as clean as it needs to be.

Sounds to me like a wash on her (extra) designing.