While power was off, anybody could come along and tamper with things without themselves being harmed, weather could have caused insulation to deteriorate on the service feed cable, etc.

This senario places out a hundred times a year.Being the owner of a nuisance animal removal company we see this daily.You really need to have a Wildlife inspection done by a nwcoa certified expert.Your basic home inspection will not find an animal problem.

While you may be able to set up an LLC without an attorney, that does not ensure you are doing things like legal compliance correct, which may harm you down the line.

I want to make sure that it won't cause any harm to the lower tenants. 

The language indicates Sherman is harmed by the project not completing by that date.Typically, if one will be harmed by a certain event, they take action to prevent that event from occurring. 

No harm no foul. 

I don’t know if calling the lender would do more harm or good.

As long as your reason for not living there is that you might be harmed then yes I agree don't buy there.  

Paying down High interest debt would be ideal versus the debt that isn't causing me so much harm.

We will definitely hold on to our money, just thought that title would catch attention lol no harm at all.