establish an end goal(s), set up your efforts towards reaching those goals

Secondly, where serious efforts are required, tenants will not get permits and way down the road, you'll pay for that with inspection violations and delays in attempting to sell. 

So we decided to pay him $1000 for the time and effort he had put in.  

Sean Brooks,First off, I am really appreciated for your time and effort to answer all my questions regarding the real estate career.

hi mark, i was thinking of just flipping it. its a small 2 bedroom which would not bring in much for a rental i think, and rental is not really my game. it is in an area that i know is currently in a revitalization effort by the city. the director of development has told me that they are putting in a mini mall with a major grochery chain store involved. also, they have already started to put in 48 new houses in the immediate area as part of that revitalization effort too. admittedly, this house is in an area that has deteriorated over the last 20 years, it does have a multi unit " projects" housing very close by and has gone from largely black area to more arab residents. the street that this house sits on has about 10 new habitat for humanity houses already built and inhabited also. its an area that is up and coming, but is only in process. if i get it, i will let you know, mark

It would take some more effort but you will get so much more out of that experience.  

I'm finding some now and emailing them.I was wondering if it would make sense to create a rough draft lease with clauses that I want in advance, or if that's a waste of time and effort and I should have them do the whole lease.

The properties presented at the judicial sale are those that were originally exposed at the upset sale but failed to get a bidder there.PA also allows for what is called the repository sale, which is a list of properties that also failed to get a bidder at the judicial sale.Beware of mobile homes in PA tax sales, since it is an effort to gain title to the home, and those typically don't come with the land that they sit on; the land is rented from the mobile home park in most instances.In most areas of PA, there is no right of redemption for properties sold via tax sale.

They supply comps using SFR criteria and that's not how MFUs are evaluated.MFU 5+ comps show GSI, (NOI sometimes), cost per unit, Cash on Cash and Cap rate.Little secret for your research efforts: ASK for everything, but GIVE nothing and then listen / read the data.  

A long story but I didn't make continued collection efforts and wrote it off, then got a phone call from the title company.