If those houses were on the open market why didn't regular buyers buy them, too much work?  

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.

I'm still looking for a general contractor, but I don't have regular deals to make a GC's time valuable when estimating each job.

Tax sale cleans up the title by removing all the clouds and junk attached. 

I think one thing that investors are learning is that stopping regular distributions might not be a bad thing.  

The cleaner should be handling all the cleaning and looking over the property.Give us some more details on what you are spending time on and we can help.No way I would arbitrage that property.

There was nothing wrong with it but a good clean up.

There's certainly other aspects that you need to consider such as pricing, quality of photos & overall listing, is it clean/repairs are done, if there's tenants are they being decent to people during showings, are you requirements reasonable etc... 

That is a great point as well, I have noticed there are a lot of Accountants/Bookkeepers out there that have no idea what they are doing with Real Estate and they think it is like other types of business, they charge based off those businesses and find out they have to do more work and Real Estate needs more details and separate reporting and they do the bare minimum which ends with an investor having to pay someone like me to clean up everything and get them back on track.

Is the logic behind that to make sure everything is structurally sound to get a clean report?