I would have cleaned up, landscaped, painted, and changed out a little carpet for $10k to list the house for $299,000.

I wouldn't go there @Cal C.BTW, as to leaving meat on the bone, I can pick deal as clean as a vulture without selling over market value stealing the future appreciation of a buyer, financing does not add value to any property value, ask any appraiser

That's a clean ~20k of profit for me for just being able to take action and find a solution that works for everyone all-around!

Here are pictures of 2/3 of the clean out.

I was thinking giving them a couple hundered back if they leave peacfully and clean the place as it was when they moved in.

However, we have a growing university and healthy student rental market with about 95% occupancy.Now, it was the seniors "Bar Crawl" today so the realtor warned me they'd be partying and it's the end of the year so houses are in rough shape.

Alzheimers research donations (thanks to those that have purchased my Book) and filters purchased through a Christian organization to provide clean water generated for Haiti.I've been extremely blessed and lucky while trying to be "mostly" a good steward of what god has given to me.

What I see lot of with property management companies is that one of the employees husbands takes care of handyman stuff and they both take care of cleaning.

Asking for referrals in RE accelerates the process and helps grow your portfolio.Recently I needed rooms of carpet cleaned.

It explains how the tenant is to leave the unit, cleaning required, etc.