As for getting out from under debt, there's really only one solution: Make more money! 

I am excited about joining the Bigger Pockets community to share my experiences with others and to have the opportunity to learn new solutions to real estate problems and challenges.

Wanted to know if there was a solution to this.

I worked about 2 miles from a wastewater treatment plant for almost 20 years and certain days the smell was unbelievable.

Water systems require backflow on commercial & multifamily because there's greater chance for someone to create the conditions that might allow a backflow scenario to exist, i.e. a hose sitting in cleaning solution, or a chemical mixer attachment on a hose, wherein a drop in pressure on the city main could cause those materials to be drawn into the distribution system.

My grandmother recently received my grandfather's half interest in a 4- flat as the surviving spouse. One of the apartments had been used as their principal residence and continues to be used by my grandmother. The re...

No the cemetery will not affect the value since it isn't that close but the thing that is closer is the city sewage treatment plant and homeless shelter (google 40 Prado), on a windy day you may get some not so pleasant smells in that direction since the wind blows southeast mostly through the Los Osos Valley wind tunnel. 

To get people out and raise rents, owners and investors in Metropolis are having to pay "severance packages" for tenant of 5 - $10,000 / $20,000 / $25,000 sometimes more depending on surface and other factors.Your solution is to build model to sell these unit to the tenants (on a massive scale).The model you come up with to tackle these 550 low yielding units you portfolio is the following: Instead of using bribes to kick people out you decide to "subsidizing tenants'" into 1st time ownership. i.e. you want to help them to buy there own flat (at least the tenants who are decent earners).Instead of using money to get tenants out, the model would be to help them get financing by sponsoring a portion of the deposit on the Mortgage.

A 401k (and other similar things) basically are regular investment accounts that are called retirement accounts in the US and have some special tax treatment (either now or upon withdrawal).

In this case, the short sale is a possible solution to their problem.