It has some deferred maintenance I need to address (roof, windows, etc) before deciding whether to keep or sell.

If you don't like the smell, close your windows.

The property is near Ohio State University and rented to students which leads me to believe that a lot of the repairs are going towards tenant damage, is it possible to write certain clauses into the leases that would have the tenants pay for any repairs they willingly caused (i.e. broken doors or windows)? 

I can throw a rock outside of my window and hit 10 cash buyers.

I am having replacement windows installed in my rental SFH (WI);  (didn't know where else to post this). 

By the time I came downstairs, I found him snooping around in my backyard looking inside the windows.

Auction sites are going to require some earnest money down and have a very small window in which you have to close on the property.

Menard's has better prices on some things (basement windows) and carries things in-stock that the others don't, like solid wood six-panel doors.

The bank remodel most of the house put in new windows a new roof and refurbish all the original hardwood floors.

Here is what I would like to see:a set of exterior pictures incl all 4 sides of the house, the front and back yard and the garagea picture of every roomseveral pics of kitchen and bathroomsfurnace, AC, water heater, electric breaker panel and electric service outsidebasement walls, cracks if any, water stains, any puddlesa close up shot of: a sample window (the frame, not the glass), flooring, siding, roof shingles -  if possibleanything else that needs attention or is broken (crumbeling chimney, a huge fallen tree, water stains on the ceiling etc)Better to take the pictures with an actual camera with a real flash, cell phone shots are usually not good enough, because they turn out too dark and don't show details.