You will clean it every time a guest leaves and in the long run will require less maintenance, etc.

The house was very clean when old tenants moved out. 

Get something that can be insured, that has a straightforward building design, that doesn't need a lot of work, that doesn't have real problem-tenants-in-place deep in the ghetto.

To do it "cleanly," you'll have to use commercial lending instead of conforming residential loans which legal entities are eligible. 

I made some routine repairs finished the basement, cleaned up the lot and repainted the whole house.

They're modern and clean.

I know I can be successful in the RE game, but trying to be cautious before making a mistake that will leave a deep scare.

BP members constantly write posts saying they don't want to be bothered with day-to-day management and I found that having a PM was far worse than doing my own management because once I hired my PM I threw another 'Iron In The Fire', 'Threw In Another Wrench', or whatever you call it because now rather that dealing with tenants and resolving tenant issues in one quick move I now had to personally humble myself to dealing when a 'Fifth Wheel With Even More Moving Parts' and the decisions my PM made in regards to who they rented to and how they cleaned rentals BEFORE TENANTS MOVED IN was super scary and the damages caused by the PM resulted in costs of not one penny less than $8,000 to clean every house when a tenant moved, one house cost me $12,000 and a house in Idaho cost me $32,00 to clean and repair only the damages caused by a tenant who lived in the house for only 3 years with the exception of my costs to trim some trees.

hello allI have a house 3/1 single story, 1200sqft, 1950s home with a crawl space and clean attic that is in 10 day contingency period.

Clean it up.