Pays on time, maintains the property in excellent condition.  

My thoughts are to have the investor buy the property in their name and then I'll manage the property and we'll split all expenses to maintain the property.

The lease agreement states that maintaining yards is responsibility of the tenant.

The owner occupant does a decent job of maintaining it, but it looks old and detracts from the value and feel of my park.  

. - Follow the advice to maintain the sellers' insurance and add yourself as the primary account holder while moving the sellers to the secondary position.- Engage in discussions with both the escrow company and the TC about the necessity of escrow.

Now $500.36 minus $336.71 leaves you with $163.96 left over to maintain a nice little reserve account for vacancies and maintenance/repairs.

They had had a maintenance contract and kept it maintained .

No firm is going to maintain a renovation mortgage department unless it pays for itself. 

They have painted the apartment professionally with great colors, installed a permanent stone fire pit in the backyard, maintained the deck and kept a clean yard.

Keeps pet odor (the ones they say they never have) easy to maintain.