Regular inspection and maintenance.

How do you go about estimating the cost of repairs if you can't even inspect the inside prior to purchase?  

It should pass the inspection for FHA.

So timing is every thing if your house is ready for market at 60 days and you get an accepted FHA offer work the buyers inspection and loan process to make sure you have the appraisal dated on day 91 or later. 

I plan to offer $75,000 for it with a $5,000 earnest check and offer to pay half the closing costs with contingency of passing inspection to my satisfaction and getting my loan approved.  

But if you intend to hold it as a rental, now is as good a time as any to refinance, and the hard water and sewer issues aren't going to be visible to an appraiser, so they should not affect the value, per se (admittedly, they might hold up a sale based on inspection results, but they should not really impact an appraisal).

The guy who inspected the property took a few pictures asked minimal questions and left.

Still deciding what I'm going to do about the last 10%...whether I'lll do cash, another loan or combination of both.No known deferred maintenance, but will have inspection done.So what say you, BP? 

I work in the Planning & Inspections department for a municipality, and the answer to the first 2 questions all depend on the City you're developing in.  

Then the FHA inspection came back, and they were rather nit-picky and said we needed over 6k in repairs that I knew the seller wouldnt bother paying for.