Also visiting that market to walk the streets and talk to residents and proprietors (think restaurant owners, gas station attendants and Uber drivers) often times they can tell you something in 5 minutes that you could never glean from hours of research.Cheers

One popped up in my neighborhood and several people in the neighborhood informed code enforcement and they shut them down.If you and your wife are good with living in a smaller place to pay down your mortgage faster than that seems like a great idea to me.At some point in the future you could always move back into the main house and rent the smaller unit if you ever wanted to.

Close to parks, restaurants and entertainment too!

I just kept my mouth shut and paid it . 

I heard the old post office on 5th street is shutting down?

I also have a self directed IRA from the past.To roll over my 401K into my IRA I would have to shut down my S-Corp and start a new S-Corp I thought.

Do you think there's good amenities like restaurant/shopping near by (upper south end seems close to downtown providence so I'm thinking that may be a positive and make the area more convenient)?

In these situations, when we pull a toilet, we shore up the floors install access panels, replace the usually either non-existent or non-working shut off valves and then install a high-efficiency toilet and make ceiling repairs.

It's in a very desirable area: 1 block from "restaurant row", 1.5 blocks from train stop (BART), 2 blocks from freeway entrance, and 3 miles (15min car ride) from UC Berkeley. 

The easiest way to get them to either shut up or act is to have them put down $5000 of their own money to lock them into purchasing the contract.