Depreciate the cost of the house straight-line over 20 years and expense everything else in the current year. 

Slowly build your marketing toolbox rather than try to hit multiple mediums at once, unless you have money to spend and can afford someone else to do the work for you.

Hi Stephen-Scenario I find two properties that show promise find an instituation willing to let me borrow for both properties, so the only skin I have in the game would be the percenatage down for both investments and use the banks money for everything else?

We had to go with a house in really bad shape that no one else wanted.

Of course, I say this not knowing your specific market and the likelihood of finding someone else to move in by Dec. 1.

After the authorities take the body and finish anything else needed I want to be sure that there are going to be no future health risks for other tenants so proper cleaning is in order.

They're generally the ones ruining it for everyone else.

But the reality is that many properties got slapped by liens like that because the municipality could do nothing else.  

The only reason we want to avoid this is that we are more interested in investing and renting to someone else.

As a wholesaler, I am a self-represented investor, and as long as I disclose in my cover letter to the seller that I am a licensed agent, self-representing, that I have a financial interest in the transaction, and that I am not representing anyone else in the transaction, I can do wholesale contracts.