It does NOT have any access to public exterior (yard or alley), and it is in the garden level.

You can find a replacement claw foot tub at a salvage/recycle business for a few hundred dollars.

I have a judgement worth a few thousand I will never collect on.But I learned this is a business and must be run like a business and that means super levels of customer service served up with a total intolerance for serious lease violations ecspecially non payment of rent, creating a neighborhood disturbance, etc....Don’t misunderstand, I want the tenants to enjoy the home and if that means a little extra wear and tear from kids, a garden in the yard, some extra painting when the tenant departs, my efforts to send repair teams same day or quickly for service at my expense, that’s fine... but the lease terms and conditions for payment and local and state law compliance are the lease terms and conditions and they should be adhered to consistently, by all parties.

I saw many latino kids playing in the front yard.  

Once you own them and have the right to get rid of them can you donate them to a scrap yard?

They default to being skeptical that you're going to take your (example) family of 5 in a 4/2 SFR with a big yard and cram them into a 3/1 with shared walls and no private yard.An easy motive is the commute.

Last I bought dirt I think I paid $25/square yard, which adds up in a hurry.Prices vary by location, obviously.

Sometimes a complaint will come in because too many cars are parked in the yard.

For 100 year old homes where the pipes to the city line might have collapsed or if there are large trees in the front yard, perhaps. 

I can't think of any other reason why he is putting tons of money in to improve his yard and loosing all his equity.