But what do you do when you are a busy professional and you don't like the muss and fuss of dealing with chicken scratch and you don't want to muddy up your hands in the chicken coop and get your clean suit messed up?  

Is the property held in a trust or does the heir have court powers?  

After that, there is a single annual inspection that is just in place to ensure the rental is still clean, safe and functional.

But then, I just don't care for HOAs due to the messes I have cleaned up in the past. :)

If I had non-standard sizes, I would buy or make some number of reusable filters - maybe 6 or 12 - deliver them to the tenant, tell them to change them once per month and set the dirty filter aside, and I would collect them on a regular basis and clean them/have them cleaned, rinse and repeat. 

, arrange for someone to clean it out if its a dump (It usually is), get bids for repairs, approve bids for repairs, get repairs, re appraise the property, then list it with a local agent.

Now I need to fix holes and clean.

Hi everybody, The tenant in Manore Austin, just moved out and the carpet needs to be cleaned and we should paint the walls too.

Just like most of the BP contributors.The power of the 1031 allows you to move from "cone" to "cone" of opportunity geographically as Richard Mayberry said.  

Per his request we did clean some mildew / mold (small spot behind furniture ) and it has not grown back.