Make lemons out of lemonade.  

It has a decommissioned oil tank on the property....bwahahahhaaa!

This is what I found.The property I am buying has an underground heating oil tank that was decommissioned (taken out of service).

 - ResourcesKern county also produces more oil than most other locations around the country.  

Candle burning, oil furnace needs cleaning.

I bought a duplex in TX late last year site unseen. As an out-of-state investors, I got hit by one of the unknown unknowns. It turned out the house didn't have proper drainage so all the water in the neighborhood drai...

And then there's the person who paints latex on top of oil or the other way around.  

People have this crazy idea perpetuated by "gurus" that investing in real estate is easy and that they should be able to kick back on the beach somewhere day 1 and just watch the rent checks roll in ... while this may be the end game, you'll need to work your tail off to learn enough and build your portfolio large enough to get to that point ... trying to bypass that hard work by claiming to be "not handy" or any other excuse is inviting trouble IMO, usually in the form of scoundrels selling snake oil by telling you what you want to hear in order to part you from your hard earned money. 

She poured cooking oil on the carpet, pulled the bathroom mirror off the wall, I'm not sure what she did to the bathroom sink but it may need to be replaced.

When demand is infinite you can deal with existential philosophy and sell snake oil over and over again.That is not the case in 95% of the RE market.