Sounds like decent services, but it's a high pressure sales job (like when the window & door guy comes to your house and wont leave until you sign).

This time he, the investigator, showed me a door on the second floor was not secured, missing a handle, etc which was the case during renovation, but very hard to access if you had a ladder, and two windows that had old style brackets were not secured.

In the specs, it says it can pump water up 20 feet vertically, so that should get you out of a basement if it has a window or something.

I then delivered her the “Statement of Disposition” at end of April and the 60 day appeal window is up on June 24th.

Hard wired smoke detectors, egress windows or stairs to name a few.

Some old school things that work....first make sure the place has blinds or curtains on every window. 

My contractor eliminated a window in the kitchen and pulled some vinyl siding from the garage to replace. 

Out here in CA I'm always interested in seeing the cost differential between our vertically integrated developer clients, and a retail build-out developer clients.

Don't even get me started on windows; old windows look quaint and can be repaired but just suck all the way around compared to new windows. 

That said, if the property you're attempting to finance is materially larger than the properties you currently operate (IE - you're trying to finance a 30 unit building, but have only operated a series of 4-plexes to date), then sometimes this rule gets thrown out the window and you'll still be subject to the "Limited Multifamily Experience Sponsor" re-sizing parameters.