I wanted one done to determine my offer, however, the utilities were shut off and they were unwilling to turn them on (I even offered to pay for the costs associated with..).

The key is knowing if a national or regional tenant would want to go in there.Larger spaces I have seen entertainment complexes, workout facilities, churches, indoor trampolines, outlet stores, etc.Additionally you can take a large space and cut it up to lease to multiple tenants at higher rates per sq ft.   

Phoenixville was a steel town and when the plant shut down the town went downhill.

Other programs that are county or state or church run are usually much easier to work with, I wouldn't be afraid to work with her, just understand where, from whom you would expect payment. weigh that information and choose.Your reply could be as simple as I don't participate in that program to accept that form of payment.

As a matter of fact as quoted" to me just recently by a PL that I used in 1991 but, is shutting down ..because I can't see people being abused like that and QUOTE:  With the NEW Banking Regulations Obamaboy has created a new PL Enterprise similar to payday loans" and making a lot of PL's rich ... and practically overnight but I'm not interested in  Obama scamming my former clients..JohnR

This is something I plan to do myself when I start renting, plus including an overlay showing from which angle each listing photo was taken.Also one inside one of the kitchen cabinets to help illustrate what size the furnace filter is, what type of battery the garage door open, thermostat, and whatever else takes, where the water shut off valves are, etc.

Check your church family to see if their are any agents.

Yeah but I just thought there might be a news article, like the one recently where the community got shut down because of Fair Housing Act violations, or maybe some verifiable tangible incidents where someone who had a website got busted for doing something wrong due to that website.  

So he told me what to offer and it was accepted.That said, the home had a lot of hidden costs because it was vacant and everything was shut off, that it was hard to detect up front.  

Especially the days when you discover that big capex like a roof being blow off (happened 2 years ago), some tweakers climbed up on the roof and gutted the A/C (did two of those in the last 12 months), an evap cooler leaked for so long that the drywall on the ceiling of the kids bedroom caved in (last year), the hot water heater blew a hose and a major leak went unnoticed for 10 hours flooding the hall, kitchen and living room (dealing with that now), the tenant smelled gas outside, the gas company came and shut off the gas because the underground pipe is corroded AND also discovered that the water heater is not venting properly so it got red tagged (just dealt with that last month) or the time the tenant "invited" a homeless guy over, he moved in, then called his other homeless buddy up and he parked his crappy RV with his entire family living in it in the driveway.