What if he moved it to you now, and you lived there with him, learning the fixups, the renters and the business.Pay no rent and use what wold be your rent for you two guys to eat like kings, and have fun times together.Sleep on a cot, or the couch, order pizza, buy some new clothes for both you guys, watch sports on a new big screen, go fishing, play cards, play Monopoly, join the Moose Club together, do the yard work together and LEARN.And avoiding probate is a wise move, and looking at the tax situation for yourself and for him would also be smart.Good Luck!

It can sleep 12. 2 in the master, 4 each in the other bedrooms and 2 on a pull out couch.

Our 3 bedroom STR max people it can sleep is 8 (2 in each bedroom plus 2 in a pull out couch on a separate level). 

Example, they left a couch behind that cost you $600 to remove/excessive personal items that required you to "hire a cleaning crew/movers" - things like that... then you handle that issue on your own, charge the tenant out of the security deposit for it and use the funds as needed.

Alway be making your money work hard---- NO couch potato money sitting around not working. 

Now here is lesson #1, when I got the mic I CORRECTLY introduced myself as an over-night success, 20+ years in the making.

You have a dark couch, the rugs are also dark, and the walls are a tanish/yellow.oPaint the walls whiteoGet a lighter color couchoGet new, light-colored rugs.

Unfortunately, my wife is just as busy as I am and would make me sleep on the couch if I even suggested she get involved in managing this

He gets so much right and has helped most of us get up off the couch and into the game that I find myself having a hard time criticizing his books and information .

Her dog had torn up blinds, crapped inside and outside, chewed up trim and window sills, pet hair all over the couches, and more.Most of them were great but some were awful.