@Aaron PetersonI moved your thread to the landlords forum.Snow removal ... it will be here before you know it ... .I've already put our RFQ as we were not happy with our service in one city last winter.In our experience, when it comes to landscaping/lawncare and snow removal, anytime you cannot define where one tenant's domain ends and another begins, the obligation falls to the landlord.If you have a side-by-side duplex or a row of townhouses where each tenant has their own drive and patch of green, you can hand-off snow removal and lawn care to the tenant ... though you are just as often better served to take care of it yourself and bake it into the rent.Anytime you have stacked units or a block (such as a small purposely built quadruplex), the parking and green space are common areas (just like stairwells in the interior) and fall to the landlord.

Yeah, so as you're inheriting the tenants, it's good in the sense that you have tenants in place paying rent, but also good that it's short term in case you quickly realize they're not the type of tenants you want living there. 

The asking price was 11K over appraisal, which seems to be common in fast rising areas, the comps can never keep up.

Deciding late into a flip to construct another building might not make sense.

I believe the tenants get a better sense of community by interacting and sharing ideas with each other.  

Makes sense.

Since the loan will not be paid off any time soon by solely making monthly payments, does it make any sense at all to continue renting only breaking even, or should I pull the trigger on the sale and take what I can get for it, even if it means taking a big loss from my purchase price in 2010, just to be done with the house?

Hi @Chris PrefontaineMakes a lot of sense.

Most common would be a revaluation (this is where the properties in the area are reassessed), this however does not always mean taxes are going up.....Your value increasing and your taxes increasing are 2 vary different things!

That makes sense.