Rental inspections are common but really they are occupancy inspections focused on health and safety.

To people that are used to living in houses built in the 70's and later, not having a bathroom on the top floor may be a deal breaker, but if this is a popular part of town, particularly if it tends to feature older houses (1920-50's), then the people looking in that area will likely not mind as much.Now, if every property around you has multiple bathrooms on each floor, and yours is the outlier, then that could be an issue, and you will need to price rents accordingly, but overall, you can't please everyone, including your friends.

They are in a bad spot because of poor management, this is very common in medium-sized multi-family, roughly 5-50 units.2.

The 5 year proforma by DEFINITION is based on a whole slew of assumptions about a whole host of issues in the future - national economy, local economy, interest rates, cap rates, rental rates, political and geo-political factors.

One of the most common real estate scams in the last couple of years has involved unimproved land sales.

Hi - I have a second / vacation home in upstate New York which had an issue and is under maintenance for almost two months.

Most of our tenants are reasonable folks, and the buildings in A and B level communities have mostly routine issues (leaky drains, roofs, etc). 

That's still the issue I have with other markets like Washington.

My attorney says this is a common tactic to buy herself some more time.

There seems to be issues with covering your expenses.Taking the sec121 exclusion, which is only for primary residences, is pretty much the best living tax exemption.