It makes sense to show the show suite in the best possible light to impress the buyers, thus staging is essential, now more than ever.  

Here at BP, lots favor the so called 50% rule.Brooklyn uses heating oil and gets snow, to be sure boiler maint and snow removal is included in your estimates.

@James MaherUDFI taxation on mortgaged real estate in an IRA works essentially as follows:A debt financing ratio is determined based on the percentage of the value of the propety relative to the outstanding debt.  

I would be essentially buying a 35000sqft lot turning it into two r10 lots with the flag pole right of way.

Land contract, or contract for deed, is your agreement to deed the property to the buyer once the buyer fulfills the terms of the contract - essentially, the deed is in escrow.Both encumber your ownership of your property, but the land contract weakens the owners rights and strengthens the buyers. 

After reading this again, I have to say I was POSSIBLY too hard on the mgt company (more on that in a bit) but nowhere near hard enough on the tenant, who apparently was refusing to let them in to do their management duties.I'm sorry, but if someone wants to NEVER be bothered by ANYONE coming into their home, even to do essential safety related tasks, THEN GO BUY YOUR OWN PLACE AND LIVE AT YOUR OWN RISK OF PERIL!!!!

Every investor has their own criteria for wanting to invest in property, I'm essentially trying to get houses under contract with buyers lined up for investors to not have to worry about whether or not the property will sell or rent after they buy it.  

I am a fulltime IT Project Manager in the Oil & Gas sector and since reading a number of investment books I am looking to expand my investments beyond the stock market.

From what I remember on that job, the bank wanted the package appraised for internal purposes and as they were all rental households operated by same owner, in the same small town Ohio, we were able to knock out like 128 units (mixture of SF and MF buildings) as a "single economic unit", or operated as an apartment essentially.

That selling agent decides on how the split will be essentially "put out there" for the agent bringing a buyer.