Be careful about using your current home equity as a down payment on another property.

If they find out, they can get really intrusive and they do not care about your circumstance.

1) If you continue waiting for the "right time ”, you’ll always be waiting.2) Your current job doesn't care about you.

One thing I did note is my insurance is $3K a year lower due to the monitored fire suppression system in these larger properties versus my smaller properties that sleep 12 or less built close to the same time.As someone who has lived in Illinois twice, the politicians there don't care if people burn as long as they can tax and spend. 

Can we just take care of this at the time of the sale? 

However if it’s a really big hazard and they fail to take care of it quickly, I might just take care of it myself rather than taking any legal action, personally.

He acted like a used-care salesman - trying to be my best friend at the meeting.

And who cares if they did, the tenant moves out and you just rent to private pay tenants.

He is super sloppy in communications, constantly calling me and our business the wrong names which seems to show a lack of care. 

Careful.