Boy this is a hell of a shot in the dark…I was listening to a podcast several weeks ago…and the host/guest mentioned a book about building and scaling businesses. 

Home is also kind of mess ..with weed smoking in the house and dog poo in backyard not cleaning up after and so forth.How to proceed here ?

There are dark forces behind the current "unjuried" approach. 

Unless you're on the beach, i'd avoid the flip flops and board shorts, but Also I think most people get defenisve or put off by suits when they are knocking on someones door, so Business Casual, collard shirt if that is something you'd wear or a Clean- Non Graphic T (unless you had your own made), clean cut dark denim jeans -- and some clean shoes. 

We used the insurance company's preferred vendor for the smoke remediation… but we ‘made out like bandits’ on the painting / fixture replacement because they were wrote up  like $8,000 for the work and it probably took us 20 hours of work and $750 in materials to put things back together.  

@Yousuf Kaleem Change the batteries in the smoke detectors.

I'm not just here blowing smoke.

I assume you have carbon monoxide and smoke detectors in the property.

Placed too much emphasis on who he was rather than the property itself (but this investment property still had plenty of equity) and then had to foreclose on him because he went dark.

Stuart I have been with my commercial banker now since 1993.. started with a little 100k  LOC to buy timber and within 8 years I was the largest borrower at that bank at about 15 mil.. ( small community bank)  but we fought through the GFC together I had to start over and my banker kept one last  1mil LOC open for me so I could operate and since those dark says of 2010 he has gone on to fund 5 subdivisions for me  300 plus homes and 100 plus million in loans and this is based on relationship 100%..