Staff often seemed to focus on one requirement at a time, and only moving on to others as each was taken care of, instead of starting them all at the same time.

Build a team of professionals, prepare your finances, and carefully select a property near high-demand areas like hospitals or corporate hubs.

Thank you for sharing your experience here; it’s a good reminder to be extra careful when dealing with properties like this.This post has definitely made me realize how important it is to double-check zoning and property classifications before closing on a deal.

Lending to Entities Only: (Not required but think carefully.)

Friendly reminder to anyone else reading to carefully review your PMA before you sign it and before you decide to change property management companies.  

It's a fairly unregulated space (charging grandma $750 to puts around for 3 hours, after moving the old box from the horizontal sensor, which was the only problem with the garage door to begin with), so some combination of carefully reading reviews (you have to actually read them to make sure it's not 200 fake reviews), and maybe not giving them the full contract all at once, is in order. 

You're learning about the eviction process, tenant screening (never "word of mouth" again), the power of a lease WHEN not IF a neutral third party needs to be involved, tenant/landlord laws, and managing tenants who don't care about your business the way you do. 

The code being cited by the inspector is below if you care to bother.Thank you.https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IPC2021P3/chapter-7-sanitary-drainage#IPC2021P3_Ch07_Sec708 Could you put cleanouts within the interior (is there a basement?)

Be super careful.

I have loss GOOD TENANTS because they shared a porch with people they did not care for.