@Maureen M.Working with the local government can be a pain, as you are finding out.

In Texas, evicting a tenant is governed by Texas Property Code section 24 that a landlord must follow.

Those would provide some safe harbor since they are government issued docs

Government Programs Look into local government programs or grants designed to help property owners with essential infrastructure repairs.

So, your issue is with the county government based on what you just said because a home built by a licensed contractor would also have not been inspected.I'd be JUST as concerned about a contractor built home with no inspections as I would a homeowner built home with no inspections.

However, the widely defined hospitality and leisure sector in general has been growing at twice the rate of GDP for many decades according to this podcast with Eric Resnik, co-founder and CEO of KSL Capital Partners, a private equity firm that specialise in the travel and leisure industry.Thoughts? 

But here's the kicker: the median household income in 2021 was only $56,746, and most households below that are renters.In the article local agents in the multifamily sector talk about why landlords are hiking rents.

You could reach out to Kevin Kim at Geraci LLP in CA who's firm does securities and PML law in all states and is intimate with CA, OR, WA, and ID laws as well as corresponding state specific financial institutions governance (in WA it's called DFI or Department of Financial Institutions) and how to navigate their expectations accordingly... 

I think the best approach is to have a free and open fast search engine that organizes all the delinquent property lists across all the 3,000 counties and links back to the Source of Truth at the government site.

I should explain that our little outfit has been investigated in the past by the federal government, due to our own stupidity, and so we also cooperate extensively with a few agencies today in our operations.