Went by with my realtor yesterday to review what work I'd need to do and we find the basement with about an inch of water in various places :(House is still technically under owner's control so my realtor said they would be responsible for getting the water out and cleaning up the basement.

After the house flooded a second time with raw sewage the second plumbing company found mud in the pipe the first plumber did not clean out.

Billy really wanted to go on the roof to help me clean the gutters.

No paint or cleaning?

Winter is always the hardest time to rent quality higher rent apts and homes.Good tenants with clean records and good debt to income ratios are already in decent places to live hunkered down for the cold winter.The place will probably sit empty till May unless you offer free rent and/or reduced deposits to entice good tenants into leaving their current places and moving to yours in the middle of winter.

A title company will assure the property is transferred without any liens, etc by doing a title search, so you get a clean title.

I find that Tenants want to live in a house or especially apartment and not do a thing to clean and maintain the place, until it is so dirty that they can't stand living there and then just move.

The other tenant is outstanding, he wants to stay, the place is clean, in good condition and we are told he always pays on time.The property will cash flow at current rents, but the plan is to rehab the first unit to get it to market rate and raise the rent on the other unit.

With Adair Park on the west and Grand Park on the east, I feel it is only a matter of time before these ones in the middle to be cleaned up.

The property rented under a two-year lease for $900 a month.The property inspection turned up pretty clean, just a few items like pushing insulation back into place or removing some pending inspection/certification labels.