This inspector's main concern was he found a paint chip on the floor and said all the paint had to be removed for he thought it was lead based paint but didn't understand there was no paint in the hallway where the chip was found and couldn't find out where the paint chip actually came from. 

Instead of doing much landscape work, in our area people buy red wooden chips throw them around.

Almost all of my inherited tenants have either vacated soon after closing (or had to be evicted) when asked to follow the lease rules, or have this chip on their shoulder coming from an "I was here first and this is MY house" mentality.  

You can use a gallon of oil-based primer (Kilz Original) and a 2-inch chip brush to spot prime each of those areas.

Hard money lenders exist for a reason and they have processes and market knowledge to mitigate risk and make short-term lending efficient and profitable. its for these exact reasons I created a 5 year note product and if I do short term the rates are substantially higher. and you have to have deal flow and I am blessed with that.. so your points are exactly on target.. for the average investorShiloh second loans to owners of properties that take all of the chips off the table are by far the most risky of all.

I by no means disagree with staying at my job and slowly chipping away at financial independence and having the ability to constantly get bank financing but, the idea of waking up at 6am and spending nine hours plus a day at a place I do no wish to be is scary.

Regardless the CHIP bill is going to get some more manufacturing online soon in country. 

I love RE and consider myself an investor/landlord  and invest heavily in it, but I also feel I want to be diversified and invest in quality blue chip, high dividend yielding/paying secutities as well.

Talk to the agents involved and see if they have experienced anything like this, know of any other charities in the area, or would be willing to chip in a few points of their commesion to help this lady out. 3.

I have a client who works in the cell phone space; his company builds the chips that do wireless charging (every phone company but Apple uses his chips, and he said that Apple under Cook is a terrible company to try to work with).Anyways, according to him the cell phone technology has basically plateaued for the foreseeable future, as there is really not much else that can be done in the terms of technological innovation with the phone.