Apartments are "easier" than SF homes from a maintenance standpoint (no grass to cut, gutters to clean, etc.)  

If you go straight to the owner now to buy the property from him, you not getting it through the tax sale, so you can't remove the any other liens/mortgages etc. without paying them.

I have told them I can't do anything until I can exercise the options.The market is somewhat cooling off and that may effect my decision on keeping or flipping the properties.I have done several 1031's with @Dave Foster and he's the best at this process.I am managing more properties than I want to already and would need to cut back on some if I plan to pick up any of the three properties ( they will need some cosmetic work for sure).The first position notes are one's I hold.

Looking at it simplistically, you would cut that income in half.

I see taxes as an expense to the business , if i can reduce  that expense legally  , great , if i can cut it completely legally , Even better .

They cut out the dry wall and everything but from where i saw the mark on the walls it looks like 15-24 inches. 

I had a cage and they still cut through that and stole my Condenser 🤬.

Cut from this morning's police blotter.

It is worth the 10% cut to them.

Just trying to gauge if there are any particular details I should know about or if it’s pretty straight forward to figure out on my own.