@Justin Yurong I'm not going to sugar coat anything, it's a bad neighborhood. 

I then sprayed two coats of mold killing, watertight primer on the walls, and a slightly different product for the ceiling.

some of the issue is redefining affordable... on the west coast starter housing is basically 300k and up and we are in the lowest price west coat major metro.you can run all around the mid west in every city and find sub 100k housing and those mortgages and all in are less than rent.. what I find is there are just so many folks that in those markets look at owing a house as a liability and they prefer to rent.. unlike West coast or other areas of known appreciation were we look at owner occ as way to grow wealth.

I don’t see why you can’t get some quick patch and maybe some seal coating.

Then polyurethane. 2 coats of polyurethane.

Note that I turned my coat closet into my office :)           

It is easier to paint brick if it already has a good, thorough coat on top of it - but if that coat is semi, then you're going to have to etch or prime. 

You should check out the Facebook group Lab Coat Agents: Referrals.

There is a small coat closet about 12 feet away in the hall to the kitchen, you have to walk through LR to reach it.

I’ve gutted the house and painted two coats of kilz, the house still smells really bad.