Morning Chris and all,In my opinion (as I don't have any experience per se in staging for flips), is that if you knew that the actual buyer of your home would pay top dollar preferred a blank slate, that's what you'd do.

I don’t have a property manager, per se.

But back to your point how is teaming up to get a higher purse per se to generate 'more funds to bid the price higher' anywhere near the act of collusion/conspiracy listed by the DOJ to keep bids low & thus cheat the respective financial institutions/home owners from higher bid prices???????

Prior experience taught me that students per se are irresponsible and it just get worse at the end of the term or graduation.

This would increase your SE tax.

@Alec Lundell where in SE Idaho are you?

You can score properties all day in SE Michigan in between $35K-$90K.  

I'm in SE Michigan too.

The age per se is not the issue, but the date of construction. 

While missing a payment will cause the principal to not be reduced, it has nothing to do with missed payments per se.