Of course countless appraisals were identified as flawed and the originating bank was forced to buy the loan back for violation of the Fannie Mae Selling Guide, which serves as a contract between originating lenders and FNMA - these were all contract-law cases.The really interesting part about that whole thing is not one appraisal was identified as flawed because of a bad valuation alone, or for all sorts of things a person might assume would qualify as a flaw.

I would have some further conversations with the note holder to try to best uncover how the tenants are doing during this unprecedented time.  

In this case, the house had a lot to offer if the people could see beyond having the bedrooms downstairs.I over did it in the designing of the overall house to compensate with the flaw of the layout, and it paid off.

Take a look at this case and the vast amount of detail the IRS uncovered.

And while people want to blame it on the virus our economy & society had deep flaws & risks many ignored & would not discuss like entitlements, socialism creeping in over decades & more like national debt & of course the elephant in the room of Federal Reserve manipulation & Keynesian not Austrian/Biblical Economics!

There's a lot to be uncovered, and a lot that can happen.

If it's a place you and family would enjoy and can pay for itself then it's worth probably going for it assuming there are no hidden liabilities you have yet to uncover. 

One thing led to another, we are now uncovering that the mold/mildew build-up is substantial and has spread to the adjacent closet. 

The long way is to just dig into the country records database and you will eventually uncover the owner names and addresses (if not owner occupied). 

The building code uses the window as an exception to the bath, but in reality it is a flawed requirement.