Hi Karen, I'm sure you'd like to sell retail because you're thinking you'd make more money, and it's possible, but you have to consider what you're willing to go through to try and get full retail price.Home buyers want HGTV quality and it sounds like you're going to have to wait until a year from now to start, which is another year of potential repairs to be made. 

There are no major work currently, but what are the regular maintenance and cost of the well/septic, such as inspection, cleaning, testing, etc?

If you quality, this would be great fit.

These properties are also generally very old and many weren't of great quality in the first place.

Memphis Invest is a very high quality company as others have said. 

. :^(  This is a serious problem, and there is a specific way these remediation guys work to clean away mold that's there and treat the area so it doesn't reoccur.

Today, I have maybe 3 that I work with and they have there ducks in a row - updated POF (not 3 months old), they let me write clean offers, they are all-cash, and they shortened their contingencies and they follow through on the purchase and then re-list with me.

Although her eviction search came out clean. 

The better quality ones are extremely durable and sometimes difficult to distinguish from wood.  

I cleaned for several years for an appraiser.