People mentioned master lease so are they essentially arbitraging the unit?

Husband and I both work w2 full time jobs and we have 3 girls ages 9. 7, and 3!

Another thing I want to mention for getting rid of the trees and dirt, I often can get rid of most of it just by posting "free dirt and fire wood,  you haul away" on a local FB group or marketplace and ill just leave it out by the road.

@Jerry Velezstrongly recommend against doing this.start with a house hack instead.make it your mission to house hack.did i mention house hacking? 

Typically with houses of this age - you'll need structural folks to dig and install piers into the soil.

As mentioned, that is not in your control. 

To do this, they have a team consisting of an inspector, a makelaar, and renovation professionals.However, as Ken M. mentioned, having someone trustworthy there to manage everything would also be a key factor.

So, in reality every month your moving close and closer to sucking out months/years of profits via items aging out, cap-x coming to bear. 

As mentioned before, stairs were broken, floors were moldy, etc. 

In my round-up note as we moved out, I mentioned that the ice maker in the fridge hadn't worked in many years and the model was known for issues so we just never replaced it. (8 year old fridge.)