I do have a clause that says tenants pay for first $150 of wear-&-tear repairs or service calls -- and specifically tell them at signing that a clogged toilet is not my problem.

I think the seller likes that about us because their dad did the same this with his mother.I have a the paper work collected to get pre approved for a loan and will start meeting with lenders ASAP. i have a good relationship with the lender that got me my first property.Lets deep dive this my situation and property,I ran some numbers roughly but with this situation there wasn't a standard way to calculate all the moving pieces perfectly that I could come up with but Im confident they numbers are close.

Personally would lean towards keeping the 1/2 bath, as on paper it looks better.

Basically, you want all of the paper history on the property.  

And because she knows the neighborhood, has saved us from at least one potential tenant who was great on paper, but not in real life. 

See, all our properties got brand new toilets, brand new outlets and light switches, brand new LED lightbulbs, etc. 

A paper by Joshua Gallin published in Real Estate Economics (The long‐run relationship between house prices and rents) was a great place to start, and the gist I got is that we can measure risk in the home ownership market using the price to rent ratios, much like we do in the stock market with price to earnings ratios.

Invest.PS      I bought my first property in 2002    a fixer upper   $2,900.00I fixed it up and got it rented, We now have just over 100 doors, or 10+ toilets, 100+ water heaters.I am a cheap property buyer.

To be notified of foreclosure auctions you need to: 1. get your local legal paper, the newspaper that publicizes them 2.

Tell them they are responsible for clogging the toilet so they are responsible for clearing it.