i cover pest control and lawn care on my stuff. keeps down on issues and i know the place looks good. for my student rentals i also build in a quarterly cleaning fee where my cleaning lady comes through and does a deep clean. extra eyes on stuff and parents happily pay it to ensure their kids have a solid spot. pass through cost for me and well worth it. 

Examples include things such as a new roof, flooring, appliances, HVAC, etc.

Twice I fell through rotted floors into the crawlspace, luckily both times I was in the shallow end of the crawlspace and only went 3-4 feet down. 

All the improvements I am doing is going under this category (new bathroom, new plumbling, new kitchen cabinets, new tile, new flooring, appliances, etc...)I dont know how classify my labor expense.

We will renovate the fix up the first floor additional dwelling and plan to rent it out as a STR for the rest of 1st year to maximize the return of our renovation expense against our W2 taxes via the Cost Seg / Bonus Depreciation.

New floors, paint, trim, furnished.

Since I was a little kid my parents have been flipping houses on the side and some of my earliest memories consist of sitting on the floor of some random house while my parents painted the walls.

We do not want put ourselves at risk of paying off the tax lien and then not getting a clean title or worse yet, having the seller back out on us.I hope that makes sense and I really appreciate any advice.

Just clean it out and move on.

Hi everyone, we currently moved from WNY and live in a 2nd floor apartment of a 3 unit multi-family house on the east side of Providence (near Hope Village).