Larry Brown I won't use this particular home inspector again...Unfortunately, the tree branches must have been sitting on the roof for quite a while because the wood underneath is rotted out entirely.

Don't go out with a bang to then sit and rot.  

When installing new ones in a gut reno, run the finished floor all the way underneath them, so if there is a leak, if flows out and can be seen and fixed, vs. soaking into the subfloor and rotting it.My comment: Most production homebuilders don’t do this, because if anything goes wrong with the flooring during the later stages of construction (tile crack, blemish/scuffing, whatever), it’s much more expensive and time consuming to fix it after the cabinets are installed on top.

The contractors realized there was significant rotting to the wood siding due to poorly maintained gutters, so the siding would need to be replaced instead of repainted, so, $1,200.00 for the shingles and siding plus labor for both re-roofing, instead of just re-roofing and paint.

The rents generated could really off set a lot of the costs associated with the foreclosures and the fact that they are occupied and at least maintained better than letting them rot would hopefully help to prop up the value of the property.If they didn't have a problem selling the foreclosures then that might change my perspective a little bit but its hard for me to accept the stance that it is better to let the house rot and rapidly decrease in value versus maintaing the property to some degree while generating some income.

The Park is still rotting away with legacy tenants.

What makes this more sweet is during the process we told the management of other issues they missed on the claim(like rotted fascia, etc) so they will submit again and give us more work, like the roof, siding, and guttering.

If everything is rotting under their tub and toilet, is it because they regularly let everything overflow and didn't clean it up, and didn't call you about an ongoing problem?

We recommend it be evaluated by a qualified framing contractor for safety.The rear walk to the garage is heavily deteriorated and uneven and presents a tripping hazard.GARAGEThere is biological growth on the surfaces of the walls and roof decking in the garage.The top plate on the wall on the South rear side has rot/deterioration present.There are large gaps between the garage foundation block visible from the interior and mortar gaps visible on the exterior.

From my experience, the benefit of going tankless to you beyond marketing would be the probability of longer service use before it rots out, 20+ years -- with the drawback of a bit more maintenance annually or every few years.