It isn't unusual to not raise the washer/dryer but maybe I don't understand the issue. 

@Gerald Dougherty I would agree with Preston that showing an occupied home is not unusual.

Paid 41K, sold for 900.The owner who proposed this unusual sale lives in Austria and has never lived in Detroit, and Else said that his client got ripped off the first time around.

No one will be able to help with $ on the forum, FWIW  $750 isn't unusual in HVAC.

At the time I had just sold another profitable property (a couple in fact) and things were uncertain.

Only in the past few years have terms like "cash flow" been used when buying a property...and that's because the interest rates were UNUSUALLY low. 

It's not unusual to wait weeks for them to schedule an inspection or re-inspection, and then a rent determination.If you do decide to offer Section 8, you need to make sure you don't throw your screening criteria out the window.

Yours may be an unusually responsible 9-yo, however most (American) kids of her age would be of very little practical help with either cleaning or paperwork.

@Quinton Thomas, I don't think it would be unusual for a tenant to stop by to get mail if they forgot to get it forwarded at the post office.

The address and job information has gotten a little newer since then, but it's still not unusual for it to lag reality by a couple of years.For Section 8, as has been said, you have to have somebody from the local housing authority come out and inspect your property, before it can be approved for Section 8.