The truth is that wasting water wastes energy.

I then installed carpeting on their floor with the water resilient padding.

Door knock & cold call.

I am aware of the “fair market value - arms length transaction” that certain Agencies will be looking at, which may affect this and blow everything out of the water.

@Gina Jurlando that would only be the part near the water.

The cost is to treat the water, heavy iron and sulfur.

Tenants pay their own gas and electric, so that's why I've only included the water, sewer and garbage in my numbers. 

Truck mounted professional carpet cleaning is powerful enough to extract all the water, which is critical when cleaning carpet.I would not use bleach, but I would try Oxiclean on it.

I was still waiting on my ex wife to refi the house (she kept it) so I knew i'd need to put closing as far as possible to make sure the bank could process everything as I'd need the refi money for the downpayment here.The seller accepted my offer and 2 days later a water heater blew up on them and apparently the tenant they were in the process of evicting did not notify them.

A year later I bought him out as he didn't want to do multi-family.2. 16 Unit - We cold called the owner and told him we wanted to buy his building.