•Requests that landlord cleans the carpets that have been soiled as a result of spills from his children.

Also, if you don't lock the home up, it can be sold from underneath you.

Cash Flow is king, and will help to ensure a stable investment.I like condos more than the average investor, but I agree with one major criticism: it’s really easy for developers to swoop in build more and more condos, as opposed to SFH, where there are only so many, and you own the land underneath the property.

The sale price may not account for things like hidden title defects and/or liens, chemical contamination in the soils, foundations needing multiple piers sunk into bed rock, hidden damage in the walls from termites, one street over from the "War zone" side of town, etc. 

In California it is expensive to BUILD NEW on large projects (soil/perc test, permits, electricity/etc

In the house I mentioned, we had missed one spot where some sort of rotting liquid had dripped through a crack between the kitchen counter and the wall into the cabinet back underneath.

It's something about the soil that eats up the tank.The tank is under concrete which makes testing the soil more prohibitive.  

permitting in Henrico county is not an easy processRichmond area has soil issues that require consultation of professional engineerspersistance pays off Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

One of the questions we have, when it comes to upgrading the flooring from carpet (no hardwood underneath), is ... does solid hardwood appraise for significantly more than LVP?

This is an odd place, we have little agriculture (too much sand too little soil), little industry (not a lot of natural resources and not very close to the northern markets), and lots of hype.