1)   Buy cheap and replace all the major mechanicals during reno.2)  Get a survey-  Nothing like finishing a remodel to find out the master is on the neighbors lot.3)  Have a clean and straightforward lease that address's problems before they arise..  

Your first article:  "Toxic Effects of Some Common Indoor Fungi"Specifically focuses on Stachybotrys chatarum in a case study of Cleveland homes where Infants with pulminary hemorage were more likely to have resided in homes with Stachybotrys chatarum (stachybotrys altra).All your second article says is that evaluation of moldiness through ERMI may give a false positive of the current moldiness of the home because it was originally intended to survey the historical water damage of the home.  

Liberty Management routinely conducts two periodic inspection surveys or more as needed of the property with interior pictures and send the reports to the owner.If this is going be a problem for you please do not apply for one of our properties.2.

However quality of life and stable market in a major city is hard to beat....I have surveyed other markets but I couldn't get the returns here in very safe neighborhoods.

Situation: Imagine a property in Fishers, IN (recently awarded safest place to live in US), a suburb of Indianapolis, IN that is surveyed as 3 lots and has two properties on the lot.

This seems to be a good starting pointWorld Bank - Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey

I personally love rentometer for surveying market rental rates, I find it to be pretty accurate. 

They would not grant a partial release.We had to time it so that they refinanced before they could sell the lot, but it worked out great for them.If you can wrap all the costs into the refinance (pay off the existing loan, survey, and title work) then it looks like you could pull off a "free" lot....or at least have a minimal investment in it.

I can show development expenditures including hiring an architect, obtaining an asbestos survey and soil boring reports. 2.  

The same consiltant should also be certified/licensed to perform an asbestos survey.