If the house is still occupied, you could simply go knock on the door, talk to the current owner about their situation, and offer them a solution where you purchase the house before it officially forecloses, which would in turn save their credit from taking a foreclosure hit.

The solution here is to have the borrower sign and notarize an estoppel agreement that stipulates as many of the terms of the loan as possible.  

Trim all trees away from the home and in the back yard. 2nd cut once job is done for photos. 2- Paint exterior walls, trim, shutters, doors 3- replace all broken window panes and ensure all windows open4- replace front door and frame paint to match house 5- install all missing shutters.

I do, and with the solution, Fannie Mae will gladly continue to give you many loans past the point where you have more than 10 financed properties.

Cost $300-500B) Do it myself, which I don't really want too but would be the cheapest solution.

For a 20-30 year strategy the buy side is less of a concern and turn key could be a reasonable solution.

Unless it's a small job with an obvious solution, get an engineer ($250) to look at it and sketch up a scope of work for a contractor to do.12.

Which means the only solutions in their arsenal they can present to someone who wants to put a lot of money aside for the future involves overfunding whole life, universal life, variable universal life or equity-index universal life policies.

Completely renovate the kitchen, 2 small size bathrooms, floors all over, "freshen up the windows" (windows were pretty old but contractor said we might not need to change them), cut off tree branches on top of the roof, add a walkway in the front.

I heard some believe no local agent that knows what they are doing would  sign this and on the other hand some are very skeptical the city would even  enforce this given the domino effect it may create. since I am considering buying a new investment property in Cleveland I  would like  to know: are there any solution if the city decide to enforce this?