When you buy at a curbside – you have NO, NO, NO (sic) idea of the interior condition of the property without trespassing and poking your head in a window that has a shotgun/pistol behind it. 

remodel interiors all units.

Your offer and contract would be between yourself and the homeowner contingent on a short sale approval from the bank.A benefit with dealing with a short sale is the ability to view the interior prior to presenting an offer, purchasing using conventional financing options and making arrangements with the current occupant to make sure they vacate appropriately.If it's bank owned, then it would not be marketed as a short sale and therefore your offer and contract would be direct with the bank.Cons with bank-owned may include the inability for interior inspections, needing to self-finance or using hard money to close within 30 days and the unknown of dealing with squatters.

Maintenance:  Interior vs.

My son has 2 more years of college left.Ann Lamm Interior Design

Small updates prior to tenant occupancy like new paint, cleaning interior.

I think this will be the best one yet, and the only reason we are not leaving money in it is that we just floated $100,000 to start-up our own construction company to handle all of our interior reno scope across the portfolio.Question: Is there more value to the investors in my $100,000 in this deal, or in the start-up of the construction arm? 

And it won’t be something I can build back up very quickly.Also the tenant has caused damages to the interior of the home that pretty much void their security deposit.  

Likewise $250 for interior carpentry$300/month holding costs doesn't sound reasonable.

The interior walls are plaster.