Be safe.

It seems fairly safe. 

Hey @Diana Mulvihill, from some random tech site - If you can operate a smartphone, you can setup a customized temperature range on your Nest thermostat in under 60 seconds:Step 1) Open the Nest app on your mobile device.

I really see Columbus Ohio as an extremely safe bet for the next 10-20 years.

I will use $140k value doing minimum to make safe and not in constant need of maintenance

At the time, it was a relatively safe, up and coming South American country. 

I can teach people how to safely & intelligently invest in apartment buildings, and if there is room for us to do deals together, awesome.  

I am NOT interested in owning any more real estate (retired here man) so I had planned on just paying my 15% long term Capital Gains tax rate and moving on to my "safe money" retirement program of MYGA's / CD's and High yield Savings account / Bonds / some Stocks.

The next buyer will also inspect it and will also have a problem with evidence of previous fire… So it will help to have an engineer look at it and say it is safe to live there. 

It is NOT safe to do so.Funny story to illustrate: over a decade ago we took over a property with a senior citizen.