In any instance I don't see why you can't seal it off instead of remove it.Per previous recommendations talk to the city. 

@David Fritch  good question other than these are complicated deals and the LOI can be banged out quickly followed up with a purchase contract.in this instance we go the LOI in signed.. then negotiated the fine points of the purchase contract while Lennar and Horton sat waiting to see what we would do.. :)

However I am confused how to structure the pricing for instance it's listed for 114k and has been on the market for a few months already so I was thinking to offer 105k so would you be saying to offer around 100k plus cost of roof repair let's say 112k?

For instance, without living it the property, you estimate each side of a duplex market rents after rehab is $1.5k , so $3.0k total a month.

The second instance is used when the loan value is above the $144,000 (which is most likely the case) and the guarantee extends to the maximum county loan limit in that area.

You should have an realistic expectation of performance (for instance you might expect that the manager will have the property rented in 1-3 months) and move on from the relationship if that expectation is not met.

For instance, it looks like you used "Home Buyers".

So, in the instance of hiring a property management firm to take care of retaining tenancy, repairs, etc...

it all depends on where you place it on the form and which forms you are usingif you are doing your taxes in ez style like turbo tax or some other irs entity youll not get your deductions for the forms are not thereif you are going to do your taxes then you need to go with the longest form you can and get all the right forms you needa lot of cpas will not do this for it is difficult plus they think they will be held liable for the taxthis is not true the only people the irs are going to audit is youanother lesson to be learned, if you are going to have property then it is in your best interest to go to a tax prep class and learn what you can right off and what you cant, for instance do you right off your work clothing?

Take my buddy Mike Hicks for instance.