@Ross BernardHey Ross, There are brushes made to clean out the dryer vent about 3 feet long at most home centers and hardware stores...... but it sound like you have a longer run through the roof instead of outside the wall behind the dryer.Is the exhaust pipe flimsy flexible pipe or is it hard metal duct pipe?

Making lemonade out of lemons is probably one of the best adages I can think of for learning to be creative and solving problems in real estateif there is a problem with a property or dimension issues you dont always have to go to a contractor to solve the problemcontractors have a certain mindsetand are operating on a specific paradaigmhere are some solutions I have done in the past that have really worked and paid dividendsi had an ejector pump in a bathroom and the space was covered by a makeshift door I decided to have a custom cabinet built that functioned as a trash receptacle and had shelves as well now the unsightly space is home to a beautiful custom cabinet that can be easily removed for servicing the pump when it needs it problem two I bought a house that had front of the shower enclosure removedrather than buy another shower enclosure cost 500.ooi opted to replace the front wall with backer board and tile the front and ended up with a beautiful custom look cost was cheaper than replacing shower enclosure and the look is twice as good problem threewhen i bought my house there was a hole knocked out one of the walls about the size of a  door i suppose thieves came in from the crawl space into this part of the house when it was vacantrather than close in the spacei enlarged the crawls space door poured a concrete floor and created a second exterior doorway to the space making the downstairs ready to become a legal apartment. 

That is ok because they can handle it but its not for those that have no money and no credit because even if they do get the HML if the house does not sell they will hit a brick wall and be in worse shape financially than when they started. 

You are probably getting a house with little to no insulation in the walls and upper level ceilings.

let me tell you a story, gustavo. learn what you can from it, or just simply pass it off as one mans luck. 11 years ago, i started out on real estate investing. i had $2000 in my bank account. the bank said i had to keep $300 in it to avoid monthly charges. so, i had $1700 to invest. we went to look at a house listed on the hud.gov website. right next door was a boarded up house. hadn't been lived in for like 100 years, so it looked. i contacted the local tax authority and found out that they owned it thru back tax reposession. ( keep that in mind) along with this, they owned 2 other houses. i went to  look at all 3. i ended up buying that house for the $1700, but kept one of the others in mind also. i got a credit card for $4400 limit. fixed up the first house with that money. what i didn't already know about fixing up houses, i learned by doing this one. i have owned that house for 11 years now, took out a loan on it for a small amount to pay off the credit card and give me some money to move on to the next one. the tenants pay the payment and taxes thru their rent, and i still own that house to this day. i bought the second house too......... for $500. thats right, you did not mis-read that, it was $500. the city just wanted it off their books. i spent about $5000 fixing that place up, rented it for about 5 years and then sold it for $10,000. my point here is, gustavo, you can start with next to nothing and make it work. you just have to believe in what you are doing and let nothing stop you. you are going to run into brick walls that try to stop you. there is an " almost real" force out there that seems like it just wants to stop you in your tracks. push on, let nothing stop you. get it into your head that you are going to do this no matter what stands in your way. i just sold a flip house in may for a $41,000 profit and i am now sitting with that in the bank. you can do this too. just get started.

All the floors & outer walls were solid poured cement NO CRACKS anywhere.

They didn't get the walls and roof completely framed back in and so they tapped the ceiling to try and keep the house water tight and prevent rain inside.

In my OPINION, it requires 4 walls, a door and a window and the capacity to fit an adult size bed.Without a window, I think it's a storage room.Without a door, I think it's a corridor or living area.

I don't have nearly your experience, particularly in real estate, but I couldn't agree more.I'm not pessimistic and don't think we're about to go down again in a wall of flames but I just can't bring myself to be aggressive pursuing opportunities I see from wholesalers.

Is it isolated and/or relatively minor such as old 9" tiles in the basement, insulation wrap around pipes or ducts for the heating system; vermiculate in the attic; or something more intense as in asbestus in the plaster used on walls or ceilings.If the form of asbestos present is highly/easily friable and cannot be adequately sealed from the living space, you are looking at abatement the cost of which could be small (removing tiles or pipe wrap) to considerable (removing all the plaster in the house).