That would clean up the issue, it's a sour note.

My friend hired a neighbor to clean up an overgrown hedge that was covering up a concrete drainage culvert on the townhouse grounds.

If you have a decent relationship with the current tenant, then pay them to clean up before the showing.Make it a win for the departing tenant and you can ditch the old adversarial ways of operating.

just a basic clean up and sell.

The Rehab would include a porch, partial roof, simple clean up for the units, add a breaker, water heater, some facia, and a couple windows.

I can contribute $5k cash, $10k credit, and sweat equity with demo and cleanup.

Plan to put about 15k into rehab (roof paint, misc clean-up) doing most of work ourselves aside from the roof.I know the cash flow is not phenomenal, but this seems like a property with the right type of rehab needed, great potential for increased rents.

I was thinking of putting a clause in the lease simply stating that the 'tenant agrees to abide by the rules set forth by the property manager' or something to that effect (obviously have an attorney review).The rules would be guidelines similar to an HOA set of rules like "no loud music or excessively noisy pets, clean up pet waste, no parking on grass, no broken vehicles, etc"How do multifamily property managers handle these?

It was bank owned and there was drug manufacturing going on at the property previously and the bank had to clean up the mess.

You'll have tenants moving in and out more frequently and you'll be dealing with multifamily issues (noise, garbage, common area clean up, etc.).