Also, ask them about compliance.

You should deliver a written notice of non-compliance to them for the dog.

One specific question I have is how to research the city codes to make sure I'd be in compliance. 

If you also intend to self-manage, you will also want to work with your lawyer to ensure that you are in compliance with the Real Estate Licensing and Registration Act. 

This attorney can make sure that you are in compliance with all the securities laws and that you won’t get yourself in trouble.

Be straightforward, calm, rational, and give folks a path to compliance and a mutually beneficial solution.

You need to spend a lot of money to get your property in compliance with what the program deems as safe and habitable conditions (which is beyond what any normal investor would think is reasonable).

Just because they say "as is" does not change a material fact that effects the value of the property.Also, title insurance is a good idea but will not cover building compliance or encroachment issues.

Later on you might be introduce to property compliance issues with the city, the brain damage dealing with tenants in such areas and city wanting to redevelop the area.

A loan originator may not be the sharpest tool in the box and miss it, the errors may slide through, but a review by compliance folks later on will catch it, if they feel the omission could be intentional and the amount is significant, to ratios, the loan can be called due.Lenders are not tax people, but they see hundreds if not thousands of tax returns of similar business operations.