Because any morally upright landlord would support me.

Moral of the story is that you pay out the nose to pass the work off to someone else who has all the connections and know-how.

When the time comes in which the state removes all subjective decision making options for landlords many of you are going to regret voting in your big government morality police 

The moral is, no matter how many you do there will always be some kind of uh oh.

I guess the moral of the story is even small potatoes come in 5lb bags.The house is indeed in a residential neighborhood (really close to OHSU) and we'll likely sell it in a year or so, so changing the occupancy or use is not an option.

I’m mean dang man, I wouldn’t want to do any deals with someone who doesn’t even put some moral thought over their profits.

Moral of the story: find out from the local authority what needs to be done, tell them you plan on buying and fixing all of the issues with the property and then follow their instructions to the letter.

Morally it just bothers me when people get paid for something they didn't do (ie. commission as a buyers agent.)

@Basilio Morales an appraisal is usually no more than $495 unless your buying a fairly big house.

@Federico Morales "my parents' tax guy has listed one of their properties as a loss, but without reporting the income for that property"So you are saying that he has only reported the expenses for this property and not the gross rents?