I was gonna title this: "I expose scummy landlords to prove how the capitalist system is corrupt and failing".

By pushing things under the rug, and therefore affecting your closing, the HOA board is violating its fiduciary duty to you and leaving itself exposed to a lawsuit.

@Fred Topper Get one of those 30k btu Blue Dragon propane torches. 

There are at least 15 tenants involved and any complaint to the state could trigger an investigation that would expose the fact that you were acting as a broker without a license.

However things are not finished and would definitely no meet code, like exposed electrical boxes.The gutters around roof are in decent shape, could be cleaned and resealed.

What IS important is the amount of equity exposed.

So, price is aggressively and expose it well and Viola!

I believe this book is meant instead to expose you to the many different aspects of real estate investing and get you to, as is so well put in chapter 1, "ask better questions"The book jumps right into the fray in chapter 1 by answering 9 of what the authors identify as the most commonly asked questions in their experience, and they are some good questions.

Therefore if you have a bi-level or tri-level home, or a house with an exposed walk-out basement for example, the area might be finished off to above-grade quality, and local custom or the assessor might call it GLA, but the lender counts it as BGLA (Below Grade Living Area).

If you go under a DBA for your RE you are exposing both your business and RE to the same risks.