Make connections with your neighbors and ask a neighbor to park their car in the driveway overnight to give the appearance someone is living there.6. 

If it were mine I would replace the roof, including any roof decking underneath the shingles that need to be replaced, and look into the cost of doing a ridge vent at the top.As far as the air conditioning system , you might be replacing a well built heavy duty unit with something that has a much shorter service life and instead of using freon it uses some incredibly expensive chemical . 

In that case, of course we're selling at market price since all the heavy lifting is done for the investor.The scenario @Paul Sverdlin mentioned is a bit insane as it sounds like the provider is putting the rehab on the investor but also taking the equity.

But due to the above factors- we're still in a hot and heavy seller's market, with no real relief in sight for buyers (add to that, with the new Burnett / National of Realtors settlement, they will be squeezed even further, having to also potentially shell out their Buyer's agent fees, which, traditionally, have been added into the seller's listing price before listing to provide to the Buyer's agent).

I’ve got a distressed and on-market house that was recently completely renovated until the couple ran out of money (all of the heavy lifting has been done, just a few things left), and it is listed well below market price compared to surrounding comps I could find.

Our economy is doing very well and Toledo has a very rental-heavy housing culture. 

With older homes go heavy on the inspections and know what you’re getting into up front.

. - 6% cap rate reflects a nice safe part of Los Angeles, California, a prudent investment, not one that will make anyone rich overnight, but a place that higher net worth individuals park wealth to preserve it (imagine the depreciation write-off). 6% cap rate also tells us, right off the bat, that we're going to be in the ballpark of 60% LTV.- We will stipulate that this is hypothetical. 

I wouldn't do that, they are not bad actors,  these are C properties with heavy value add which is higher risk, and certainly mistakes were made.

Airbnbs are huge here as Chicago is very tourist heavy.