I'd hate to turn down a perfectly good buyer... 

The cost of the repairs is one thing but the time value of the money lost due to a year of vacancy is a sunk cost he will never get back.Another perfect example of why you never let the tenants do any work for compensation.

Our basement would be perfect as a unit, but the only access to it is inside the house.

The perfect storm is when people lose rental income, lose their W2 income and don't have reserves.

This takes up 6 of the 10 allowed conventional loan slots, leaving me 4 loan slots for Fannie/Freddie backed loans.  

I've done pretty well with marketing niches and obscure systems and perfected many of them before some of these guys were born.

Also be careful because the ceramic tiles don't look perfectly flat until the grout joints, they often curve close to the grout joints which increases the chance that thinner planks will show through. 

In a perfect world I would install a short window the length of the wall near the ceiling and then add in the insert shower or tile it.

Many get so focused on infinite ROI that they pass up 100% ROI "almost perfect brrrrs"

I would bet that most states, when confronted with a factual scenario where a money judgment lien is perfected in the gap (after notices to junior lien holders are sent by the foreclosing lender, but prior to the auction sale) hold that the judgment lien is extinguished as to a bona fide purchaser regardless of whether actual notice of the sale was received.