Marketing: Try different variations of marketing.

Her name, Husband's name, variations of both...every single solitary purchase they made throughout their life was new development/land, no address...mailing address was condemned property.

The variations and circumstances could take a book or two, each deal is different.

Wow, I know nothing of Virginia law so you will need to contact a local attorney for specific advice.First I would send the certified letter to their last known address.Second I would also have a Notice to Quit, or the local variation of it served on them.Third, never lock a tenant out of the apartment unless you have a lawyer tell you to do so in writing, and you have a copy of his malpractice insurance.The truth is you need to see an attorney who does evictions.

Maybe someone can explain to me how you're going to determine the differences in weather regions, wind variations, sun exposure and differences in materials used over a 30 year period and how that would be relevant to my roof on a building that's 5 years old, shaded most of the time, in a valley area that has little exposure to higher winds. ???

An investor friendly lender or mortgage broker is going to understand that, and work with you to get the loan.For commercial properties, the ratio of the NOI to the debt payments is called the "debt service coverage ratio" or DSCR (or some variation on that theme.)

bostonhome, i just did a loan that is a variation of the 203K...i did it through saugus bank...10% down based on the ARV...decent rate of 6.875% ....this was for a 3 decker...i am not flipping, at least not now...im renting the units outmy deal (round #'s)...purchase $200K ...$20K renovations...ARV $265K...I had to put down around $25K...it comes out to a little more than 10% but still a good deal i feel...you may want to check it out...i will use the program again if i can...good luck

There are so many variables, I don't find it useful to try to create a uber-spreadsheet to handle all the variations.

So is this a federal tax rule, or is it state-to-state variation?

You get LOTS of variation, so get multiple bids.