It may be hard to collect, but if the tenant ever wants to clean up their credit or buy a house, they will need to pay the judgments. 3.

They also left the house extremely dirty and neglected the landscaping to the point where it cost $500 for cleanup labor,  sod replacement,  and mulch to be installed.

Our primary house will be empty and I'll come back for last cleanup and repairs and put it on the market. 

The emergency cleanup/mitigation/pipe repair was completed by March 3d and they quickly asked for authorization to represent me in insurance payments which I declined.

Don't just learn about Real Estate, also learn about construction - go to Home Depot every Saturday and take their tiling and painting classes (for free), volunteer on a Habitat for Humanity jobsite to do cleanup and just pay attention and ask questions.

Rather than deplete the tax-sheltered IRA, you could continue to grow it and only distribute to yourself the minimum amount required, or perhaps a bit more here and there as suitable.

One leaves and it’s $10,000 to clean up?  

IE it likely wouldn't make sense to do a trash out and clean up the yard if the most likely buyer is an investor who is going to gut the place anyway (and can see past the clutter).

They went an incredible time letting taxes go unpaid before foreclosing and then tried to clean up the mess. 

Good to see everyone coming together and organizing the cleanup effort.Laura T