The drive has been restored.

Insurance wrote a check for much lower than what contractors were bidding for restoration/remodeling. 

My company’s name is Glass City Rehabs & Restorations.

They have helped over 100 people in the past 12 years restore their lives, and reclaim children from foster care, rebuild families, and return to the job market. 

In short, getting the place restored was akin to remediating damage from a natural disaster.In the trash and belongings abandoned by the tenant, he also left the OM for his healthcare real estate endeavor, nasty-grams from the IRS about his personal taxes, and collections letters from several creditors after him.I got burned here and so did my property manager.

@Jamie Dupont From a tax perspective, you can deduct repair expenses related to the damages caused by the tenant as long as they’re for restoring the property (e.g., fixing holes, broken fixtures).

It’s a beautiful wooden cabin-style property that I’d love to restore.

I have bought meals for people who needed it, my husband helped restore homes after Hurricane Harvey, we look out for our neighbors, and so on, but we don't often give cash outside of the checks we write to our church.

ARV is irrelevant for taxes.Then you subtract land value and depreciate the rest. Or

At the end of one year, the cost to restore the property to livable condition was over $15,000.