All your properties may be perfect but if you are transparent about why something is not in service, it makes sense, and they agree it works just fine for long-term rentals.

Do I have to give a tenant a written notice to vacate the unit upon lease end or is a text message fine?

It is fine for the bank to use. 

And that's ok - I am totally fine to weed through hundreds or thousands of pitches to find the small handful of like minds out there, and I am perfectly capable of investing my own capital in the meantime. 

In my 30 years doing this I’ve found that as long as you address each issue that comes up properly and do the repair needed to bring that part of the building up to current code then you will be fine.

And you may not know the answers to all of them right now and that is completely fine.

I had one investment in a syndication that would have been a total loss however the sponsor made good and repaid principal . so 3 year no return.. which is just fine by me personally I am not one who goes crazy if the return is lower or does not happen to me its principal i care about.. 

Assigning contracts as a legal instrument when necessary is still fine, but not as a business practice.Gonna be interesting to see how it affects the investing community here, but I've been encouraging people to just take the title for the last couple of years knowing this ban was coming.

If you can get a better deal on the home due to age its a fine and if you need financing banks do not judge year built. 

Any form of real estate, real estate syndications, or private lending is fine.