He is motivated.The property is 5 acres with a good sized creek running though it (never dry) with a 3 bed 2 bath ~1500 sqft house in pretty good shape (on an unfinished basement ~1500sqft) and 2 car garage.Properties like these in this area are rather rare and hard to come by.

Rotting food.

BTW, so far I have come up dry on any kind of established PM operating out there.

They dried up so bad that I'm sure it was a turn-off to renters. 

If your state is under the "Statute of Uses"like Missouri it may be considered a dry trust.

I have found a HUD house that needs to have new plumbing and electrical run through it along with dry wall throughout and the kitchen being redone.

If the crawlspace was dry and the blocks have not shifted their actual position, i.e. settled, then you might be able to just have the block re-tucked by a tuck pointer.

.…………………………..I was in the backyard of my primary residence this past March, raking up all the leaves I had left to rot over the winter, in attempts to get the property ready to sell.

He'll need it to pay the rent during dry months.  

The composites can have issue with mold and they can still rot and fade.