The property is totally inhabitable and no one is living there but the old tenant still has a bunch of belongings there.Here's our dilemma.

Now it's closer to 20%, so these laws should be reexamined.Imagine a 5 bedroom 3 bath house inhabited by two unmarried couples.

My wife's friend, her daughter, is not interested as she lives with her family on the east coast.The local assessor has assessed it at $500K for tax purposes.It has not been inhabited since 1986, other than a walk around and through once every couple of years.

Ultimately, the person inhabiting the property has to be willing to leave.

The bank/lender could rewrite the mortgage loan to share in future appreciation but such an arrangement would lessen the incentives for the owner-inhabitant from making necessary upgrades and maintenance as the owner would only benefit from part of the appreciation from those actions.

The atty's I talked to (2 civilian, 1 military) all concurred that there was a contract in place, based on the amount of e-mails regarding negotiation, and the e-mail stating his acceptance of the final offer, and also stating he signed, returned, and mailed said contract, along with opening escrow.

"They are operated extra-legally or illegally, but the city has bigger things to worry about than going after someone raising a few chickens," she said.Kirk Mayes of the Brightmoor Alliance, in one of the city's poorest areas, says there are 200 community gardens in Brightmoor alone.As farming is imagined for Detroit's future, abandoned land would provide fruit and vegetables to the city's inhabitants, for whom fresh food is often not accessible because grocery stores are few and far between.City and county officials have no hard figures on the number of empty plots and abandoned homes, and estimates vary wildly, going as high as 100,000.

I spoke with a neighbor and have also seen for myself that the house looking inhabitable.

There are those out here who are immune to feeling pain either due to drugs or they are simply not bothered by the low level of pepper spray that civilians are allowed to carry.

Another thing to consider if placement of tenants, people deploy, move, and everything (as I'm sure you are aware), which means you might have a higher turnover rate than if you were in a strong civilian rental market.