Torn out drywall, open bags of garbage festering on the floor, several mattresses and soiled furniture piled up on the porch and in the living room.

They can nip problems in the bud instead of letting them fester for seven years.

Whole side of that industry is just a festering pit of scumbaggery.

If you let the mold(or problem) fester, then you will be responsible in the court's eye.  

They just let them fester & worsen.

Instead of patting the pm on the back , I’d question how this was allowed to fester and how the pm was so care less over my asset and permitted this foolishness to take place .

Good you are realizing this now than letting it fester. 

I did not mean to imply that all government is bad, merely pointing out the hypocrisy of holding investors liable today for something that the city/county could have been working on for the last 40 years, but they did not take any action or accountability for the problem, they just let it fester.

You'll get to nip festering problems in the bud. 

Then YOU go after the roofer for being sloppy and not dragging a magnet broom around the property to pick up stray fasteners.Trying to hide behind some indemnification clause in a lease over a few bucks is just asking for this thing to fester and grow into a full-blown law suit.