Please remember it is your responsibility to keep the driveway and walks clear of snow and ice for the safety of your roommates and guests. 

I had to tell her to deal with it ,  Its ice , I have a snow plow , not a ice plow .

And I should manage it as MY money, not a freebie, not a gift, but something that is mine.They want to use a HML on an asset they want to fix and keep, and hope to refi...but with a HML for at least 6 months, and no experience of fix/rehab they likely will not come out ok, but hear it as a way to get in the game.They want to enter into a wholesale contract with no money to perform, another using other people's money thing.They want to manage a syndication, because they did real good in the real estate boom and now are real estate geniuses, kind of like selling ice cream in the Summer.

This was crystallized when a VP retired after 30 years, and the going away party consisted of beers at a local ice house.

The answer was that he had stood upon a large block of ice which had melted. 

A basic example would be, “I want to be fit,” but end up eating a tub of ice cream and watching Netflix all day.

I don't know where your property is, but this doesn't sound like abandonment to me, and if you treat it as such you could be walking on thin ice.

Assuming the rest of the home is in good shape, it will be the icing on the cake and definitely help selling it. 

If, in the middle of the coldest part of a NY winter, an ice storm hits and disrupts power to utility customers, disabling their heating sources. 

@Frank SzymanskiFor the rental in fl, here is what I would do: Remove uppers over the U, add nice lightsFloating LVL floorsMove cook top over to the left, nice hoodExtend an L with the counter top to provide seating on the other side, round the edge of the counter topBuy / replace appliances, may be counter depth fridge with ice and water on the doorUse quartz / granit for counter top, or butcher blockAdd nice lights, new big sink & nice moen faucetI'd lightly hand sand cabinets and spray new coat of polyGood luck