If your parents don't have a current property manager, consider attempting to manage them yourself for the experience.

Attempted to rehab house to turn into rental.

I live far away and was unaware no one was watching or maintaining the home or I would have attempted to find a caretaker of the home maintenance.

This is particularly restrictive when attempting to qualify for larger balance home equity lines of credit of $350-400-500K. 

Jeannie can attest to my character.  

They only get reversed when the bank attempts to cash it and discovers the account was closed or has insufficient funds.This is real easy.

Since you live in one side of the duplex you may be able to be more selective about the character of the tenant(s) that inhabit the other unit.

The forums here are always a mixed bag, but recent occurrences have unveiled a new low in trolling.It's commenting on comments and then attempting to gaslight.Multiple times now, someone has commented on either a post of mine or a comment of mine that was not directed at them.

We provide housing for Homeless and Addicted people in underserved communities, and in an attempt to revitalize our Downtown area, and expand our Program (part of it is home ownership and entrepreneurship) we need to be able to buy adjudicated properties, or have them donated, then have the finances to redevelop and repair them.

We provide housing for Homeless and Addicted people in underserved communities, and in an attempt to revitalize our Downtown area, and expand our Program (part of it is home ownership and entrepreneurship) we need to be able to buy adjudicated properties, or have them donated, then have the finances to redevelop and repair them.