Re-apply grout to areas requiring (shower corners and floors, mostly) and then using colored silicone to match, finish off all areas requiring soft joints.TRIM: Adjust all interior and exterior doors to latch (80, 84); repair all windows for freedom of movement (81); Replace broken window to kitchen (81)FRAMING: Repair over-notched flooring joists (89)EXTERIOR: Remove soil from wood contact (4,11)PAINT: Touch up baseboards after all polly work, walls and doors.ATTIC / PESTS: trap existing rodent infestation using cages, clean out all contaminants, seal off entry points (68) GROUNDS: Replace rotted wood (2), Add drip edge and replace piece of damaged wood behind HVAC unit (6); replace rotted corner boards (7); replace damaged siding and paint, as well as siding screws and loose soffit (9)

I have a walk-in closet that is about 6x5 and it gets really cold due to no air movement. 

Most stick built homes/buildings will sway with the ground movement and you end up with some sheetrock cracks, but typically very little structural issues with the exception of foundation cracks.  

Knowing how to buy and sell real estate potentially opens up a great deal more freedom of movement.

And is that country experiencing some tightening policy around currency movements?

You will most likely pay a premium for the property to begin with, and then perpetual costs for all the services they provide.

"Unique and profitable with perpetual business guaranteed!"

Have it priced in high end at the moment, likely the reason for the slow movement. 

One of my new home projects I am building we had targeted 350k sale price when we hit the market Oct 2015. .. we are now at 370k today.. sold one today for 369k.. so nice upward movement nothing of the level of premium bay area but when you take that and average it over 22 homes we have remaining.. ( sold first 5 at the 350 to 355k number) that's a close to 500k gain for the project in 4 months..

By setting up our deals as if we were paying the BoC posted rate - a full 2-points over what we can obtain for a variable rate mortgage - we leave ourselves ample room to set our payments as though we had a 5-year fixed-rate mortgage (normally 0.5 - 1.0 greater than the variable rate) and still have sufficient cashflow for other projects - the extra principal pay-down is our "reward" for hedging any interest rate movement ourselves rather than paying the lender for a fixed-rate note.It is also quite easy and inexpensive to pull equity back out if it is needed (up to 80% LTV, with some lenders only 70-75%).