I hired a drainage company to install french drains and sump pumps to remove the standing water.

Purchase price: $240,000 Cash invested: $15,000 This rare, 2 story double in historic Holy Cross offers an inviting French Quarter feel at an affordable price!

We have some really heavy rains and water starts coming into the properties kitchen through some exterior french doors. 

The new rules limit short-term rentals in residential areas to owner-occupied properties only (must have a homestead exemption in place), places caps on rentals in commercial and mixed-use buildings, and bans them outright in most of the French Quarter and the entire Garden District.See these links:  https://www.nola.com/news/article_c390da62-ba00-11e9-b876-237e289ed3ef.htmlhttps://www.wdsu.com/article/new-orleans-city-council-approves-new-rules-for-short-term-rentals/28639928https://www.nola.gov/short-term-rentals/

@Luke Clarkehttps://www.frenchprivatefinance.com/french-mortgage-guides/property-types/french-equity-release/

French doors installed in place of the glass sliding doorsTrim fascia and eves are painted!

If you're willing to take that risk tell your LO to let your rate float until it hits a certain percent in either direction.

@David McCracken In this case stopping the water might be the easy part........... install elbows on the down spouts and lead the water about 4 feet from the foundation; install a French drain around the foundation where the soil is the highest-usually 3 sides and lead the water away from the building.

I nearly had a drinking problem.In fact I remember 1929 Ports for about $1 a 6oz glass & French Champagne ran about $3.50 a bottle plus our dining room meals were basically free.

I left the house very clean, nothing inside, with only a few superficial repairs (2 blinds needed to be replaced because my cat liked chewing on them and a small pane of glass in the french door had been broken by a falling skateboard)  I left nothing inside.