The books and more suffering through the details will helpThanks againRick

I hear ya... many of the deals I have seen here in PDX are ridiculous on the siding and intrusion issues.. its the HOA hiring the big gun litigator who gets rich going after the insurance company.. while the homeowners suffer huge loss's...

My father recently suffered an unexpected and drastic decline in health.

Unless you like pain and suffering...

Even in the 2001 dot bomb it was mostly new fake "lofts" that suffered. 

I purchased a home in June of 2017, and when I got the loan, the loan officer asked me not to sell the property till the mortgage got sold otherwise he would suffer penalties.

But it's far better east of the highway than west (toward Concord, as you suggested)3 -5 exits North are the 28269 areas that suffer from the problems in paragraph 1.   

If not it sounds like you will need to close as is or lose your EMD and suffer the consequences 

. - Prop 13: My family suffered from this big time on a property on Gulf Shores Alabama.

If you yourself are an attorney, so much the better, but get SOMEone on your team who knows what you don't, or suffer the consequences.