I regularly call sellers on behalf of my buyer clients that I have preapproved and walk the seller through the rigor of my preapproval process to prevent this exact situation. 

my main goal is to just get the roof in before weather gets bad.is there anything I can do aside from a 3k escrow holdback suggested by my agent to prevent getting burned?  

For winterizing a property without heat, shutting off the water supply is a key step to prevent pipes from freezing and bursting.

Pest control should ALWAYS be the landlord because you want to prevent pests.

They may need to cut open the wall to dry it out and prevent mold growth.

This prevents a prospective tenant from re-using that same code at a later time or date.It's a trusted, efficient, and proven process that significantly reduces the cost of overhead.Since 2019, through our platform we've scheduled over 160,800+ showings and placed over 6,700 tenants for our landlords.

The City has an "Eviction Prevention Task Force" which includes Judges, Attorneys, the Sheriff's department and non-profit groups and churches. 

Hi everyone, we are thinking of charging a monthly maintenance fee to cover our semiannual preventative maintenance inspections (where we check for leaks, clean the AC unit, replace the furnace filter, etc.) and also a once a year gutter cleaning. 

However, this must be paired with a dedicated and robust negative keyword strategy to prevent your ads from appearing for keywords that ARE NOT RELEVANT to your investing business.For the sake of this example have a look at this attached picture below:In this picture you can see that this ad shows up on the keyword “House for sale near me…” which is not something a seller would search for (not to mention a distressed seller).

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