Not to mention all those little rubber pieces floating out in heavy rains & covering the walkways.

The pipes are accessible due to being in the main walk way of the basement.

We put about $7,000 of our own money into redoing the transitions, repainting, touching up the tile work, casing the windows, trim work and closing up one wall and adding a built in bookcase to improve the flow of the house, along with completing the walkway from the driveway to the front door, so potential buyers didn’t have to walk through the wet grass to get to the front door.After doing all this, and re-listing the property at a 10% discount, we received 3 offers in less than a week, one of them cash.

Parking is at the rear of the unit rather than at the front, meaning the tenant might want to use the unmaintained short walkway and steps through the small rear patio area.

Ask your friendly title company to create a HUD-1 for youWith the offer attach pictures of all the ugly things about the property; the landscaping, broken windows, bad walk ways, bad fencing, green water in the pool, any nasty pictures of the interior, the estimate amount of renovations neededWrite a cover letter stating what you will do if they accept your offer; secure the property, insure the house, pay all cash, take care immediately of the roof problem, protect and secure the house form squatters, have the electric turned on, notify the water department, notify the local police to keep an eye out for vandals...etc.Since no one at the bank can make a decision as fast as you want, put a drop dead date in your offer.

It's obvious you don't have a clue about a short sale transaction, and that's okay, but don't tie up some owner's house for 90-120 days on a short sale, then walk way leaving the owner facing a foreclosure auction with no time to sell to a real buyer, if the listing agent is dumb enough to let you put it under contract.  

It is separated so tenents would have there own walk way to the washer and dryer.

They never poured a walkway from the driveway to the front step and only 1/2 of the driveway was paved. 

Do the new lots have to be relatively equally sized or they can be any sizes as long as the setbacks and land coverage ratios are satisfied.When calculating the land coverage ratio, is road and public area (walkways, playground, etc.) included?

So it wasn't exactly "it's the law", but more like - you are responsible.However, after a few google searches it was evident that I was only responsible for reasonable and necessary maintenance, such as clearing snow from a drive or walk way.