Conversely, if I am to rent a room or place from out of state, what should I do to secure a location?

Generally if you have to fix up a product after you buy it but before it's available to be put to use you would capitalize those items.

All in all, multiple visits for mostly piddly items totaling a lot of money. ugh. 

Terms of Consideration:In this mutual termination, both landlord and tenant agree to the disposition of deposits and financial responsibilities in the following manner: Landlord will return security deposit by June 6, 2018 less damages caused by tenants, missing items and outstanding utilities/water bills.We'll fill in the terms later but do you think this is good enough? 

I’m looking for a CPA to make the conversion to a Self Directed 401k or IRA and knew this would be the place to go for referrals.

Was Congress Heights part of the first conversation? 

Basically with knowing there could be some potentially large items to fix in the near future, knowing that you could utilize the money better elsewhere, and seeing where our price levels are right now, my suggestion would be to 1031 this property into a better cash flowing property with more stable long term values.

Just wanted to see if we can get a conversation going on what some of you would do. 

I'll be selling the house myself, soon, so am looking for info regarding the the Mke market; what I should fix/update, - staging advice, maybe some negotiation strategy conversations.  

Your credit doesnt have to be perfect but you cant have any outstanding items for example recent bankruptcies, not current on most things.