Too many red flags.If we subsidize someone's "right" to own a home, why not subsidize their "right" to food, clothing, transportation, and everything else? 

It says on Patricks profile that he runs a boot and clothing store.

However, I am not as concerned with crime or the quality of tenants (to a degree) at this time, as I am with ensuring the property is up to code and isn't going to land me in some kind of hot water with the municipality (particularly as the area transitions through the Target Neighborhood Plan).Just received the report back on a property I am pursuing, and would like to know potential shortfalls of some of these items that may or may not be a big deal.  1980s era build with the following items of interest:- Lacking 1A10-BC extinguishers, water heaters lacking drip tubes and seismic straps, windows blocked by stored items preventing egress, common area doors not self-closing or fire rated, cleaning/sealing water staining in various areas, other key areas with wood rot/staining as viewed from crawl space, roof missing some shingles (age unknown), birds in attic (missing some grates), vapor barrier to thin/missing in crawl space, exterior damp proofing damaged. 

The seller in this case do have a lot of furniture, clothing, and other stuff in the property.

For most of the homes the carpets alone were $3200 to $4900 plus two coats of paint on every wall and ceiling, replacing broken bathroom sinks, kitchen sinks, faucets, repairing air conditioners, replacing cracked times on roof 36 feet high, bringing in 4 to 8 tons of rocks to make the yards look nice, trimming trees, repairing sprinkler systems and the piping, replacing refrigerators, stoves, washing machines clothes dryers, water heaters, painting garage floors ceilings and walls, bringing in 20-yard trash bins to remove all the carpets, trees trimmings and trash left by tenants, replacing all the window blinds, door knobs that are broken and locks for the main door and locks for the garage door so the keys match, repairing garage door openers that are broke, repairing the garage door rollers and seals, painting the trim outside the house, replacing facia boards that are 36 feet high, replacing window screens and the screens on sliding doors, replacing entire windows just because tenants broke the window locks and they cannot be repaired, replacing kitchen counter tops that are destroyed, replacing all the kitchen doors and drawers because tenants destroyer the cabinets by hanging their wet laundry in the kitchen cabinet doors to dry. replacing garbage disposers, dishwashers and the list goes on and on.

Use a drop cloth on the floor and take your time. 

The branch circuits may be cloth wrapped and ungrounded. 

i found this jammed in the pulley/belt assembly of a clothes dryer. 

income to raise  cloth feed and educate my children through collage age. 

I took the FR clothing to the house with the only interpreter for the 14 people.