And with the market in that neighborhood only supporting 750k, it's pretty much a wash between selling now at 325k or a new build for 750k.  

Or was it a wash ? 

The area around the north campus Wash U is a little sketchy.

Should they know if the HOA is solvent?

They made a club out of it so you can go there and see your friend's Ferrari, or have your car wash b4 you fly in from you  business trip.

In reality one year there is nothing and the next year something major, so it washes out.

White vinegar evaporating in a pan and/or used to wash surfaces will help to eliminate smoke odors.4. 

I am also very interested in self storage, laundromat's, and car washes.  

J Scott pull permits for cleaning gutters and power washing???

It's usually pretty close to a wash, or when I hold the rate constant it's like 20 basis points (to price, not to rate) or something trivial, coin toss which will win on any given day.I prefer to have my direct lender hat on to my broker hat when working on REI deals (not licensed in your state, don't actually bother PMing me) because your situations are always wonky and I need that direct telephone/IM/email line of communication to the assigned decision making underwriter so I can go over your net loss carryover, or weird Schedule C, or funky deposits, or whatever it is, with her and get it resolved in 5 minutes rather than over the course of 5 days of emailing back and forth through some intermediary.