While this might assist in recovering from the Seller, I doubt your reliance on it would relieve you of responsibility for correcting the violations. 

If your goal is a slower timetable, then that might work for you.But as you advance in your real estate investment career, presumably you are successful and have a less reliance of financing.hopefully you reach the point where everything is self financed, 0% financed.In the mean time, I still say borrow as much as you can for as long as you can (with caveats), and that today's historic interest rates won't last forever, so take advantage of them while you can, they won't last.Millions of dollars of debt can be a burden, ask me how I know that one.

Hence, welfare and section 8 reliance for decades.

And it's very easily seen as a step transaction apart from the reliance on the safe harbor.2.

Remember, real estate investment involves risks, such as reliance on tenant payments (like you mentioned) and potential, unexpected, property maintenance/repair issues.In conclusion, both strategies have their merits.

But that had to do with so many different factors that are unique to Detroit (e.g. over-reliance on one industry, CRAZY politics/corruption, CRAZY union issues, a wide geographic area that made it very expensive to provide necessary governmental services, etc.).

I think by BP doing any verification of such issues actually opens the door to an implied reliance on BP and thereby creating a laibility issue.

Self-reliance - Don't ask busy people to get/give you things that you can get on your own in 30 seconds.

If the war continues it will result in about 10 years of adjustment that will be paid for primarily by the working class.Over the term I am hopeful that Canada will move away from reliance on the US for manufacturing and ultimatly strengthen our own economy....but it will be a long haul.

I am sympathetic to your plight, as I understand it can really hurt to build a reliance on something and then have that taken away.However, I don't really see a way out of this.