The VA lender handbook adds more than 60days may be considered reasonable if both the following conditions are met:1. theveteran certifies that he or she will personally occupy the property as his orher home at a specific date after loan closing, and2. thereis a particular future event that will make it possible for the veteran topersonally occupy the property as his or her home on a specific future date.Can anyone vouch that tenants in place on prior leases and  "a particular future event" being the date in which their lease ends would meet these criteria?

Forcing appreciation isn't that easy unless the property was purchased at below market due to a condition you're going to change.

And then I would surprise my tenant with something nice for them, thank you letter and gift certificate for dinner, something just to say thanks for working through things to assure on-time rent payments (yes, VERY good business, it's called CONDITIONING).

Well now there are a bunch of issues.First off the house in its condition (not good) now can probably get about 1.5 - 1.8 if not more.

The market rent is $1,200. the tenant (single mom) was living there for 6 years and tenant had kept the property in great condition.

Our second property was less expensive and pulls in close to as much in rent, but it is in worse condition.

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. :-) I can say if you want a trendy location for a flip, the place is going to be in pretty bad condition in this market at around $100 because the land alone is often going to run that much.

There are no pictures of the inside so I can’t tell the condition but imagine that it would need a new layout.

The specific site condition could change my answer, but generally there may not be anything specific that needs to be done.