Can you make it part of your deal to have the seller remove it before close with a clean bill of health?

To be honest, it never occured to me to check on utilities when a tenant moves out.Check that your locality is allowed to add liens to your property, if you had not been in possession of it when those charges occured.In Georgia utilities are not allowed to do it, but yhe water company does it routinely and will lie straight into your face until you produce the law.

They flat cleaned that house up fast!

A buddy of mine is contracted by property manager to provide daily cleaning service to space that the IRS leases.

The condition is clean, but needs a new hot water heater, new A/C unit, new appliances and carpet and paint.

So, consider the LTV of where you must be to refinance and the time line required to clean up your act.

Example I put a trashed property under contract then I pay someone to go in their and clean it out, haul the trash off, cut the grass, maybe replace the broken glass in the windows, Paint the door, clean the gutters out.

Example I put a trashed property under contract then I pay someone to go in their and clean it out, haul the trash off, cut the grass, maybe replace the broken glass in the windows, Paint the door, clean the gutters out.

Plus I assume it's mostly young men, you know what young men do - for the most part it's not cleaning or quiet time.

When you clean most blow out the leaves with a air blower.