if so,  does that mean you can't obtain quiet title action within a year, and basically the property will be sitting there untouched during this one year period?  

Remind them that sound does travel between the units, so if they are on a late night phone call with their friends, to perhaps not sit in the room directly under the upstairs bedrooms.

One great example is framing crew comes in....frames up the house, plumbing and electrical crew comes in and does their thing....leaves all their 1/2 finished cokes, Gatorade and beer cans and 1/2 eaten lunches sitting on the framing.   

Sorry, it doesn't sit right with me.Also seems to be a pretty blatant violation of the equal protections clause, although they don't seem to care much about that anymore

If rent is $2,000 and utilities another $300, that's nearly $5,000 to sit on a vacant home.

The property sits in an opportunity zone.

Have some small MFRs there and last vacancy I had we had ten people sitting in the parking lot to see it at 0800.

One trick here in Texas is typically you can't get title insurance on a sheriffs deed for 2 years after the sale, so you have to sit on those for 2 years before you get financing. 

I’m in Austin, and while I’ve got interests all over the country, the Texas market is close to my heart.From the numbers, it seems like you're sitting on a solid cash-flowing asset.

Buyers are taking advantage of opportunities, with the median sale price increasing by 3.2%, now sitting at $640,000.But cash deals are down—just 21.6% of homes were paid for in cash, a 22.8% decrease from last year.