I'd put new one in also for same reasons.Keep the tenant as long as you can but give yourself some lead time to freshen up the interior, on a Single family home most are likely looking for personal use and I'd have it empty once you list it.Showing a home with someone in is not optimal the tenant's idea of cooperation is not always easy to define and a messy place doesn't give a good impression, wasted time with occupied in my opinion.

Banks will lend all day on well performing portfolios.

People need to maintain and operate the machines and there are tasks robotics cannot perform. 

It would help a lot to know because then I could optimize how much I invest in rehabbing, and what my target rent would be as I would also know what if any benefit there would be recapturing cash/equity.

As we grow as a company and with our trade partner, we will offer incentives and bonus' based on performance and loyalty.  

First 5 years is 50,000 and next 5 year is 55,000 a year.First five is 250,000 in rent X .06 = 15,000Years 6 to 10 = 275,000 V .06 = 16,500Total commission you pay out is 31,500 split between the tenant rep broker and the landlord broker.Make sure you have an out in the contract if they are not performing, have a good co-op offered to tenant rep broker, and make SURE the leasing brokers do no insert getting paid on renewal options down the line.

The concepts that intrigued me the most were non-performing first-mortgages, some of which can be modified using Hardest Hit Funds, and the second concept is selling partial notes on performing first mortgages to recoup the capital investment and get passive income from the back-end of the notes. 

My issue is that I can not perform maintenance on my house (replacing siding and windows, also soil has built up and is touching the bottom layer of my siding).

Become best friends with 5 high performing people.  

Must appraisers physically inspect the building to be able to provide an official appraisal, or are they able to perform an appraisal off-site?