My intent was to sell at face value with a 10% interest rate and sweeten the deal by agreeing to do the work to clean up the property if it came back to us and if I wasn't willing to do that I'd lose my portion of the note giving more security to the note investor. 

What else can you throw in to sweeten the deal?

The depreciation expense on the equipment sweetens the pot even more. 

To sweeten the deal, maybe send them out to lunch (paid by you) to a mid-range restaurant while you conduct showings.

Their equity considerations:Gift cardCleaningNew depositsMoving effortFinding another place cheaper than yoursYour equity considerations:Market rentVacancyTurnover costsYou have the leverage and you can build more leverage by sweetening the deal.

That will sweeten the deal for them and they will be more likely to work favorably on this project, which in the end will improve your property and the living condition for these and future tenants.About the seven stumps.... you need to know where they're located, their size, and what kind of plant they were.

Recognize that your first few deals may require you to sweeten the offering a little to attract the capital until you build your track record up at which time you can set the terms at market or better. 

You can put your sweat in to sweeten the pot.

Ultimately I’m seeing all deals will sweeten overtime.

I dont know about you, but thats preety easy money. so why not gift or provide 1-2k to a client to sweeten their deal, Imean they did just line your pocket, and save you time. ;-)Anyway, this trategy is based on what works in my market. tweak it and make it work for yours.