If you know of anyone who needs to make a solid return on their money and is interested please let me know and we can work something out. I may be able to pay a finder's fee. These both are good deals. They are not...

Being able to sit more people in the kitchen island will be appealing to potential buyers.

Don't count on the seller to do your figuring, that'll make you very poor, very quickly.)The suggestions to insist upon the schedule E or the tax returns are interesting- most investors can figure out what a building needs(in terms of capex and operating expenses) and what the rents and vacancy rate should be(as those are functions of area, the economy, curb appeal, management skill, and so on,) so if I were selling a 10 unit and a buyer insisted upon my seeing any part of my tax return, I'd consider that buyer to be an irritant and I'd find one who was capable of doing their own proper due diligence.

I personally like the look of the old units, not necessarily the color but I see the overall appeal.

Go to SDAT and they have information about how to appeal your assessment.

Right now I'm in a situation where I feel I wouldn't be very appealing to an investor, but I would like to know how to be!  

Neighbor will set the curb appeal for you and the whole block -- think twice on this.

Certainly the 1.5% interest is appealing to you and the $35K equity, assuming the value is there.

/Dec in PA to make it appealing & low maintenance?

If you are the recipient of a high assessment, you would want to appeal it.