., in favor of any governmental body, authority or agency.

Your dad may be the Executor of you uncle's probate estate, but he'd be the Trustee of the Family Trust.A number of different things may come into play. 

If multiple neighbors contact the property owner or local authorities, it might increase the pressure to resolve these issues.

Does your local housing authority allow this type of arrangement? 

Adam, I am vaguely interested in BRRRR to vacation rental in cottage country to play the long term appreciation game.

It is the role of the legislature and municipal authorities, not the courts, to consider any policy concerns related to STRs.

Rates/pricing has to play a part of course, BUT knowledge and responsiveness is actually more important. and to answer your second question, well, look at my last sentence for the answer. 

My challenge is that I am not authorized/signed up with the city to take on CHA checks, so that will take a while to get a tenant.

@Rob Ibarra Converting non restaurant space into restaurant space can be fairly costly from what I understand due to the need for larger than standard water lines to service the building and a general need for grease traps and other restaurant specific infrastructure.My first question around going from abandoned auto shop to kitchen is zoning, could you even get the use approved, and then are their any environmental factors in play? 

A closing / title company can handle the transaction but may want to get a lawyer to draft the documents.Assuming you are buying in your name and not a LLC - if a LLC then there would need to be additional docs like a authorization for LLC to borrow $ etc