This is not to say they'll do the job well, only that screwing the job up won't endanger anyone or the house; the worst that happens is the job looks like crap. 

In fact, they said they're scrutinized by their clients (banks) and won't take the risk of endangering a big segment of their business with one of the banks by favoring an in-house offer.Now, the story is quite different in the smaller, mom-n-pop type real estate office.

Anything that could potentially, at any level, endanger my primary I am against 100% and wont consider.

You have specific timelines that you have to meet for getting the property off the endangered list, and for getting it livable.  

Two hours later, at a Steven David CE class we were attending, he stated you should never use your house as an ATM:) I believe the correct answer is what fits your needs with the caveat that you should never endanger your personal residence.

I am a local, street-level BRRRR investor that is hunting and always trying to sniff out a deal on the ground, and they are an endangered species at the moment. 

Look up “Los osos snail endangered” and you’ll see just one of the MANY BS reasons why you can never build here.

Since this is an endangered species, construction was halted.

People DO have a right to protect themselves, as long as they're not endangering others in the process (which is too often the case with our current regulations and non-regulations).I completely agree with most of what everyone has said above about how media and our society is more to blame for the violence than the fact that guns are legalized (though they clearly both contribute).

Now when making the current analysis to the land we found that: there is an area at the end of the property that is considered wetland, there is a storm pond in the middle of the property of about 1,000 sf and there is a little chance that the land may be house of an endangered species.