Can make for a classic but clean and fresh look.

It's a little hard to be a hard a$$ when your tenant is also your neighbor.The answer to that is to hire a property manager and never reveal that you are actually the landlord.

If the place is in that bad of shape and needs quite a bit of real work done I would get them out and start fresh.

In some cases, there's ways to structure the transaction where the current company forms new subsidiaries that are free of undisclosed liabilities, transfers the real estate into the new subsidiaries (exempt from conveyance taxes and tax reassessments), and then the fresh subsidiary is transferred to the end buyer.

I will not reveal the value that you told me on your PM of your option arm HELOC, but just know it makes the matter so much worse.

Fresh killed hares or grouse sometimes went into the family pot.

Redoing a kitchen in one of the units, some fresh paint, couple new appliances. the usual. what are you working on these days?

Not saying this is your situation, but we do get a lot of these fresh "seminar graduate" phone calls.

We had looked at using old hotels/motels to house the homeless but the operating costs were pretty high compared to apartments/SFH.And as someone who provides housing for homeless veterans - no matter how it's phrased, the idea that only welfare cheats need a place is both highly offensive and revealing at the same time.

Could use a fresh paint job and some new garage doors to give it some curb appeal.