He told me he purchased it for 25k about 5 years ago in the hopes of fixing it up, but his health has prevented him from doing anything to it.

Not the way it was designed but their health has declined so that's the way it's ended up.

It cant necessarily buy health.

I was looking over the health exchange website and one of the income questions was Net Rental Income amount.

We have lots of aged building stock here - Victorian or older - that can often be found at relatively descent prices due to the fact they are energy pigs.While it is true that a kitchen or bathroom installed today will be a 20yr old kitchen or bath when it comes time to sell, adding insulation, improved electrical, plumbing, ventilation ... all those "under the hood" type of renovations will bring comfort and health benefits to your tenants and operational benefits to your bottom line.

Yeah, I noticed that was strange, too. The

Nailing value, wasn't the original question, this thread drifted there, I did too, the question is who is best at analyzing comps?

I have a goal to replace my wife's income for health reasons with some buy and hold properties in Hershey, Hummelstown, Palmyra and possibly Harrisburg, PA.I own a rental with that I could probably get about 230k for, great renter currently (been there for 4 years) owe about 160k on the place.

The two brothers currently live in the property and dont want move out, they both have terrible health and are in their 50's.

While they were at it, I had them do the two properties in-between ours: one is another rental; the other is an elderly lady whose health is deteriorating.Today, I went over to place snow shovels at the two properties and noticed that the neighbour landlord had trimmed all of his trees that were overhanging our roof.