How often are you using estoppel certificates on your small MF deals (2-4 units)?

If that's the case, you can't do any renovations until you have it professionally deleaded or it would be flagged for Unautohrized Deleading and you can get fined and the property would never be able to get a Lead Certificate, only a letter of Environmental Protection that states you did illegal work, got caught, then had to pay a professional to clean up the mess.

Robin, contact the City of Syracuse Codes office and request an inspection for the certificate of occupancy and let the building fail and then request the city place a condemned or similar notice. 

There are some other requirements around language in the company's operating agreement, but like the self-certification, that's likely something that could be done at this stage, too.  

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We broke ground at the end of July and got our certificate of occupancy in under two months!

If that's the case, you can't do any renovations until you have it professionally deleaded or it would be flagged for Unauthorized Deleading and you can get fined and the property would never be able to get a Lead Certificate, only a letter of Environmental Protection that states you did illegal work, got caught, then had to pay a professional to clean up the mess.

You might mitigate the flood rating with an elevation certificate, which costs hundreds to obtain. 

I'd find the house (both our names would go on the title), rehab the house (plus, in my case, I'm a licensed deleader so the property would get Lead Certificates too), then get the house sold. 

You can do this by acquiring their license number and asking for a certificate of insurance (COI).