When dealing directly with sellers, as the investor, the best approach is to get bits and pieces of information prior to the meeting, and then once they've seen and met you and you've verbally expressed interest then say something to the affect of "I'm seriously interested in buying your property, but before I can make you an offer I need to review x, y & z.The process of working the seller in this way takes a little more time, but you'll find the information tends to flow more freely after a) they've met you and b) you've expressed interest in making an offer.

Our reasons were that we keep immaculate homes (and advertise as such), pet hair is tough to remove, one jump on a sofa or a bed cover after a muddy day and that piece of furniture or linen is ruined for the next guest.

In  regards to a piece of real estate being vacant, there could be all sorts of reasons why.

A piece of flat stock aluminum slides in above the door in the frame, that prevents the door from being raised and popped out of the track.Windows get the L bracket in the tracks, double hung.

No one ever follows up on the first piece of mail they recieve.

from a contractor stand point if you are looking for piece work I would be charging 55$ per hour.

Welcome to the BP family; appears you have all your pieces in place.

It's a tri-plex and I would be living in one of the units while the other two would rent for 500 a piece.

Have you tested the stain on a sample piece of the same material as the floor?

Steve,Do you see a trend of the ones that get audited by the IRS?