I know you asked about selling, but I am just trying to think outside of the box.

(my firm does affordable housing development) and I've spent time doing landlord-tenant law.

Hi and Happy New Year.My wife and I have spent considerable time researching and getting to know the Peterborough area over the last year.

I spent about 4 months looking at multifamily properties in NJ with no luck. 

Birmingham is the same way.If you can acquire 5 nice sfr rentals with almost nothing down on each purchase, you’ll do very well over the long term.All you have to do is hang on to them and your wealth will stack up.I wish I would’ve spent my 20’s doing that.

Assuming the improvements resulted in $1 of value per each $1 spent, you each now have a basis of $110,000. 

You can get radiator covers with perforated sheet metal on the front that cover the entire radiator like a box or we had flat metal covers on the top with 1-2 inch sides.

If store is doing well for location but the whole system has issues that tends to give the lenders much more pause and concern.Check rent rates for that box size to make sure vintage rent in place is replaceable.

Between points, title/attorney fees, taxes and insurance, most of that will get spent just buying the property.

But consider that no matter how motivated, they are probably getting a lot of offers in their mail box from the people who recommend them to you.