Just a partial list to consider for this: unpaid Municipal utilities (water, sewer, trash and in Phila natural gas is a municipal utility), unpaid rental licenses, unpaid code violations.Taxes are usually the biggest dollar amount, but one REO I purchased had over $2k in delinquent sewer bills, and the taxes were less than that.

Obviously when contacting the proposed administrator you need to be sensitive to the fact that they might have just lost a loved one - that relationship will be stated in the petition so you can know. 

I don't really need basic lessons in screening tenants, just looking for perhaps a perspective I haven't thought of.I have multiple applicants for 2 apartments, 8 applicants altogether, and 5 of them have credit scores 700-749, 1 of them has credit score 750-799.One of the applicants with a credit score of 700-749 was the first applicant.She has excellent job references and qualifies income-wise for the apartment but barely.She will be going from $200/mo with a roommate, to $675 for a small 1BR apt, so it's a big jump.She has no pets and seems very nice, is respectful and quiet.She is a naturalized US citizen.She works two jobs to pay her way and was going to school for accounting.

I see this as a great inflation hedge due both to the real nature of the asset and the fixed debt.

. - Here's an article [ Natural Soultions for Keeping Animals off Your Lawn ] I just found with some other solutions, though I'm not sure I'd use moth balls . . . doesn't sound like a safe thing for the lawn or any kids that might end up passing by (kids love walking on lawn edges as they stroll down the sidewalk).

Another where the basement had a sump pump that had to run 24-7 - seems that there might have been a natural spring too close to that house.

This, I believe is fundamental human nature; a deep yearning.

The thing that worries me about TX is the high property tax, high insurance rate, and higher risk for natural disaster.

When a nominal transfer occurs there may or may not be transfer taxes due - it depends on the nature of the transfer, at least in the state of PA.

What would you recommend if the project was bigger in nature - as in rebuild the whole house.