At age ten, I walked half a mile twice a day to fill a 5-gallon water jug and carry it back home because we didn't have running water.

For the Northeast, your average remediation would be between $10,000 - $20,000 for a small scale, but if it's been sitting, it could be worse.Your biggest worries with an oil spill from a tank and remediation are two things:1. is there a water source that it hits.

I never recommend out-of-state investors buy anything for less than about $55-75k all-in or, generally, it will be in an area that has a mediocre tenant pool with high turnover and bad turns when they leave; the price to rent ration doesn't matter when these items eat up your profit year after year.For multis, it's a little different, but I typically ask them to focus on units that rent for about $500-550 minimum to have an easy time managing them and finding quality tenants. 

The length of time the deed takes to get recorded with the county which has also slowed the process of getting the water transferred to my name and 2.

I did take an extra day between my last guests because we had to swap out a water heater and do some touch up painting.

Contractors and new investors are like oil and water.

When you are forming all sorts of small partnerships with no real "corporate" backing and pooled asset base to provide security for the counterparty, typically you can't get a swap.At the end of the day, I was just talking to an LP in some deals that are going south.  

So the issue im having is This trespasser comes and goes as he pleases to destroy the property but  never stays the night At the property because its CONDEMNED he has cut plumbing lines Gas Lines , cut hardwood flooring broke walls windows removed furnace water heaters etc.

Yeah I think it's a unique opportunity to test waters in short term rentals or "mid-term" rentals with less risk.

In addition the poison causes them to need to drink so for the most part they will leave the building looking for water and die outside.