I am sure there are a ton of people that are in the same situation as me and want to know how to do this as cleanly as possible. 

The property that has 550 cash flow also has about 35-40000 in equity and I have contemplated selling it to clean most of our slate.

It is clean and has almost every aspect updated.

Other than that, it needed a wall opened up to make a bigger kitchen, redo the bathroom, and there were hardwood floors that needed refinishing upstairs under the carpet. 

Anyway I'm from NYC and over here we use a superintendent to take care of garbage, cleaning and snow removal.

How is the flooring?

I bought the property last year without knowing its history, so I attempted to have the tank pumped only to learn the septic company would either have to tear out the driveway over the tank, or charge me $50/foot to dig and hopefully find the clean-out (though it’s not guaranteed they’d find it).

One corner of the property and the basement floor are about 3 feet below the base flood elevation.

Built in 1884 and located in a historic district, this will be a lot of work, from plumbing to updating electrical to changing the entire floor plan.

I was planning on just covering it with vinyl floor planks.