Clean the place up and move on.   

What I would do if I could find a safe clean place to rent for $1300!!

Just trying to make it as clean as possible with new money and money we are putting in ourselves.

Stair carpets (steam-clean where possible)7.

If the current owner has awful tenants and a property in disarray, who knows if he has skimped on routine maintenance, leading to a lot of deferred maintenance (which you need to underwrite into your financial modeling).Keep this thread informed as to your progress!

There was a young couple that operates a cleaning service for airbnb and they've been adding all kinds of services, including full managing.

This flipper has earned a reputation among the children of the original residents (who all went to school together and still talk from time to time) as someone who can solve their parent's house problem, including all the stuff they don't want to deal with.Advertising that you buy homes as-is, and that the house doesn't need to be cleaned out first may be a marketing point to touch on.

I deducted the cleaning fees from their deposit and only deducted the days that were not rented (13 days).

One unit was pretty filthy from a less than clean tenant.

Our previous tenants left a house full of Cockroaches, we spent 2 months to fully clean it up.