He may not want an eviction and move his crap out on his own.

Can't speak to Boston particularly... but how many buyers scrolling through Zillow will skip over your house due to the front yard looking like crap?

Mine's over 800 and I couldn't care less.I agree the requirements to get a fannie loan are complete crap.  

If you insisted on having the same attorney do everything, you'd at least want to get a clear understanding of who the attorney was going to represent (if anyone) in the unfortunate event that crap hit the fan.

It's insane how many deals people will throw your way when they know you only have 45 days to identify (lots of crap with properties that are all priced on pro-forma cash flows!

Frankly what you have described is a cherry deal for an operator and a crap deal for a buyer with those kind of lease terms.There are many other properties to choose from.

Scared the crap out of me.

The Staten Island DOB commissioner refuses to sign it, because the now Brooklyn commissioner is the former one from Staten Island that dealt with this crap many years ago.

After leaving several messages with no reply, I was able to contact a lady that did not give a crap. 

Assuming you can get the Co-op leveraged up like you would want, the cash flow would be crap under the new loan.