Americans are unhealthy and can barely afford rent.

The garden is now half covered by weeds, many plants untrimmed, two plants dead due to lack of maintenance, and serious blackberry invasion on the backyard to make the original plants unhealthy...

The seller can simply tell them they want an inspection because it's been awhile and they want to make sure things are up to code from a safety standpoint because of how unhealthy it looks.Then if all checks out fine you are good to go.

A 25% MOS is good, a 50% MOS is better, a 100% MOS is even better, and so forth, when it comes to passing my financial stress test.On the expense side, I require 2,000 calories a day to sustain my metabolism.

For example, buying a stock with 10% return and 10% SD and a different, uncorrelated stock with 10% return and 10% SD can create a portfolio with 10% return and only 5% SD.To answer your original question, I think it's unhealthy to think of RE as "better" than the stock market.  

I have this unhealthy relationship with healthy money management.

Are you spending money on unnecessary, unhealthy processed foods, chips, soda, sugary cereal, booze?

I don't like them and I think agents have an unhealthy lock on the system but I can very simply calculate the cost of the fees into my transaction.

If you grew up in a household with an unhealthy relationship to money it is even more difficult to overcome.I have come to believe that we no longer live in a financial setting where someone with limited knowledge is able to invest in a few mutual funds and a couple of rental properties and forgot about them long term.  

The statue of limitations exposure to an unhealthy substance is 3 years so if they have a problem in 45 years (yes, it takes long term exposure and then decades for it to become a problem) the statute of limitations is long past. ;-) Seriously, long term exposure (decades) is the concern here, not intermittent exposure over a lifetime.2nd there is lead in paint prior to 1978.