I am a mother to 2 teenage sons who will be gone soon so now my focus is slowly turning back to me.

The place was completely trashed (some clear vandalism - neighbors saw the teenage son throwing concrete blocks into the pool, urinated on the floor, wrote on walls, and smeared feces on the wall).

Its a little like my teenage daughter using these in text to her friends to shorten the typed characters.

I chickened out.I have a large family with teenage kids and therefore feel like I can't just live on Ramen noodles to build up savings.

Although I lived in Philly one summer, I was teenager and real estate was not top of mind.

and I might drive by more often just to insure a bunch of kids or teenagers were not hanging around constantly.

Also not charging her for the 2 hours it took to sand down and re-treat the cedar walls where the teenagers were writing on it with marker and ballpoint pens, or sanding the wall where they had made a booger collection (art installation?

It is like having a parent tell a teenager to follow the rules and they act out and say things like "yes moma dear" with an attitude and the parent is unable to enforce because they get worn out.

I taught two different teen age daughters to handle my mgmt 15-20 years ago.

As Will said above, they don't even show up at the auctions,they have teenage kid paid runners with cell phones attached to their heads.