Check out landlordology to see EXACTLY what the statues say.  

@Jacob Marble This does not sound like a cash-out deal.  

Statue of limitations has not run out yet.  

@Daniel Duque looking at the florida statues I didn't find anything about it being illegal.

Read your state statues online, they should be fairly clear in this matter, as to what the owner would have to pay, or call a local RE ATTORNEY.

but of course that does not sell 30k guru packages and or others who want to charge money to teach people to do exactly what the statue says you cant do. 

Is that real marble in the bathroom?

Of course they never found it and the city of Harrisburg eventually went bankrupt due to the massive expenditure of placing the official USA Today “#1 City in the USA” graphic on every police car, ambulance, uniform, fire truck, building, park bench, police dog, memorial statue, lamppost, street light, crossing guard, trash truck… you get the point.

This is more prevalent if you are in our boat and have the marbles to buy houses site unseen out of market, but be careful when you have a motivated seller and pull a house up at 1900 sq/ft and see a $ per sq/ft that you make work in your ARV*.7-rehab value.

I used in on a historic museum renovation on the marble floors.