What I imagined can be stressful is her hiring an agent - having the agent tell her all the repairs she NEEDS to do to get full market value - going thru 100 showings / offers / then closing ect.  

If you know a concrete pouring company, it may be worth it to widen the driveway.

Prince Georges County has tens of thousand of eligible units. the income and other profile features of our candidate tenants are 97% of determining features as to what level(s) of compensation your investment will be legally accessible to achieve. if you buy in many markets in California ethnic and commercial groups will let you charge $ 5K to $ 100K a month rent, to match-up your earnings with their financing agenda and program factors. the United Nations, along with corporate interests, universities and countless governmental agencies facilitate mind boggling rents in every geographic market imaginable---for their select consumers. diplomatic embassy personnel, students, hospital staff, airlines and entertainment occupancies are a few tenant categories for above market rent candidacies. but generally just furnishing a sfh, or renting individual rooms will spike the rent yield more than enough.

As you can imagine it would be impossible for me to meet face to face with all of these prospects but I agree that I need to get more face to faces, at the very minimum with each person who verbally agrees to my price over the phone.  

Imagine scaling your business and having to go door to door....

I too have started not even asking realtors for comps, as it seems like pulling teeth, dont know why, cant imagine it would be so hard.I find all the comps I can, find the most recent and most similar to my property, break it to square foot and apply to mine.

I imagine this thread is already posted on a wall somewhere in Detroit's city hall.I haven't laughed this hard in a long time.

You could also pour a concrete pad and possibly bolt the condensor down to the pad.

I remember three years ago I was doing a shower wall in a cold basement and troweling too-stiff tile mortar on the wall, an utter despair of the soul welling up in me, wondering how my life had come to this from what I imagined it would be when I was in college, when my parents celebrated every academic achievement with enormous pride.And I'm a big guy with a long history in DIY, an extensive family history in renovation.

A very unpleasant odor as you might imagine.