Items like kitchens, bathrooms, convenient laundry, nice flooring are most likely to catch the eyes of renters and can justify market or slightly higher than market rent.

He has someone who does foundation work as a side business and is taking a long time to get the job done. 

Three huge jobs, and two little ones. 

If being near family is important today and you might move somewhere else in 5 years then look at the Virginia area and the market factors out there, appreciation, wage and job growth, supply-demand etc..

@Joseph Weisenbloom nice and now you know you signed the lease last

Yo could ask if it wil be applied towards the job if you go forward?

It's not your job to play detective,  or the police, just let them know you can no longer offer them a place. 

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with zero or negative relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560, little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

So, if you have no experience this will be a very hard deal 1 to finance.Right away this is classified as an "Heavy" Rehab job which means rates and leverage change. 

This job is not really worth a contractor's time.