Nobody would ever pay their taxes in that circumstance, gambling that other people will fix it up for them, basically for free.

It's more so for the situation where there are numerous tenants and one causes rodents, landlord has to remediate the issue for the others, or if the landlord has a dumpster on the property and doesn't have it picked up regularly, that's a violation, or if a landlord doesn't clean between leases and rents a disgusting apartment to new tenants... those types of things.

It's very prevalent when you see many houses (almost tear downs, but livable) built in the 1940's with numerous code violations and right next to them are new builds in 2017 or 2018 while the appraised lot values are doubling each year.

Level of education on the latter will make or break that gamble.

Dennis Tierney thanks for the feedback I have heard numerous great things about the Mopoa.

I've owned a few rentals and bought and sold numerous homes, so I'm not completely new to the game.

There should be different expectations in these homes and I have run across numerous inspectors that scare buyers off because they are used to inspecting newer products.

I've read numerous books including Rich Dad, Poor Dad, David Greene's books as well as others. 

If the numbers work to stay with one supplier, and the gamble on maybe saving a few bucks isn't worth the effort then by all means do what works best. 

For all the state's numerous faults their CSLB is pretty scary.