I've also come across an article authored by a renowned attorney in Illinois Condominium Law (https://www.cai-illinois.org/liability-condo-associations-damages-caused-failure-common-elements/) which states that since the association neglected to address the masonry issue, which is a common element, they bear responsibility for damages to the limited common element and the interior as well.

Well I actually closed on my house dec of 2022, but I bought a pretty old house and did a FULL interior renovation (out side still needs work) and have been here since June and we love it!

However, I do feel confident in my ability to do a good portion of renovations on my own and I am pretty good at making the interior of a house look great.

You'll do this for everything in the home that requires replacement: interior paint (4 years), flooring (12 years if you use 12 mil LVP), roof (20 years), hot water heater (10 years), oven, washer, dryer, garbage disposal, microwave and so on. 

There was the leasing agent, planners, an interior design team to choose from the color palettes, others for security, construction inspectors, etc.

As you have exterior and interior items where one could be ok and other not or both need work.

Some property you can't get inside, so you won't get interior pictures.

Biker/tweaker house.....Had to sand the wood floors 3 times....and nothing took the stench out of the interior until I finally re-mudded all of the drywall.But the winner might be the house that was a lesbian party house.

After the collections I have a 640 credit score and it hasn't moved for a few months.I rented a property with a few friends for a year and after move out we were charged with over 6000 $ in B.S damages including 5k to repaint all the interior walls of the home due to a few minor marks.

I have a spreadsheet of how profitable I am going to be with the deal and these are the numbers: 245k purchase price, 20% down (49k) 7.2% interest giving me about $1,330 payments, looking at neighboring rentals with the same layout and interior I can potentially rent it for $2,200 hopefully but I expect the worst.