You have three choicesGet discouraged and give up, because it is not as easy as you thought Become a dreamer, continue as you are and hope magically it will work for you.Take the concrete steps to start where you are and persist.

Again, a local lender could give you more concrete info.

I guess it could be the last straw for some people who considered their home a quiet oasis in the concrete jungle of California. 

Concrete pads, utilities to each site, waste disposal, etc...

I co-own a microbrewery and the buildout involved removing everything (including concrete floors) and installing all new floors, plumbing, electrical, hvac, etc.

I never heard from him on Thursday 9/23 and I got side tracked with work I forgot to check in and when I did ask him yesterday Tuesday 9/28 when they will be over at my house to finish up the work he mentioned they already went last week on Wed 9/22, Thursday 9/23 and Friday 9/24 and finished the work, all they needed to do today was to backfill the holes that were dug to fix plumbing and pour new concrete in plumbing trenches.

Find an other method where you have CONCRETE evidence that it works and switch to what works.Spoiler alert.

It was a terrible buy as it's a 40's concrete house, 700sqft, and IMO rehabbing a concrete house isn't worth it due to poor insulation among other things.I have around $60k saved and am frozen on if I should pull the trigger on a deal in OR where prices are super high and use financing to rehab a buy and hold rental, or go out of state where I can buy something for cash and rehab that for a buy and hold rental. 

I should add NYC may have its own law but nationally, the tenant is wrong.Her is an example of some non-compliant "evidence" we have been provided that  I photoshopped it a bit for humor

It wasn't until months later that we synched up for more concrete business talks.