You will have vacancies, the carpets will need to be cleaned, walls will need to be painted and different items will have to be repaired and replaced.

I provide a clean house at a fair price.

(Clean up, paint, etc..)

As far as being a turn off for the buyer, I read somewhere that in the state of Colorado, if a property has been completely cleaned and got a certification that you don't have to disclose that it was ever a meth house.

so i have a section 8 tenant in one of my rentals. she is a good tenant. about a month after she moved in we had the plumbers come out and roto rooter the main line leaving the house. i didnt mind. the cause for this instance could have been anyones, not to mention it hadnt been cleaned out in a few years. no biggie. 5 months later i needed to call out the plumber again. this time the main cause of the plug was someone was flushing down those sanitary wipes, which are not biodegradable. this is purely the tenants fault obviously. bill totalled $300+. she has no way of paying this as she stated. housing authority has her locked in for 2 years from begining of the rental contract. i dont necessarily wanna give her the boot, but this is a business. my real question is: she wants me to take it out of her deposit, then she claims she will replenish the deposit once tax time comes around, around feb- march 2013. is this legal for me to do?

In my two years of doing this I've found that these types never have a squeaky clean history.

Scrape and clean and fix the obvious.

As Jon Holdman routinely states "your home is just an expensive doo-dad."

I am just about done cleaning the town house I purchased and the first "would be tenant" is coming to take a look.

The ACV value will let you clean up the lot and get it ready for sale, with a good chunk left over.