Although I conducted a basic septic inspection during the closing, and the system is in good working condition, it still failed the STR inspection.

So the seller cannot go get another loan for a car, house, apartment, etc. so it damages their credit by stretching them too thin.Am I missing something? 

His course will cost you 5k plus the downpayment of say $2500 on a property that likely needs work before it's ready for inspection. 

Do you rely on inspections, local contractors, the agent, or property managers to get eyes on it?

Why they need to inspect the interior when the exterior is pristine remains a mystery, but we don’t make the rules.

The buyers did a long inspection, multiple days... made a huge request for concessions based on what we knew to be purely made-up issues.

Hello,I am a real estate investor located to Southeast MA, I own and manage a small portfolio of 23 units and am looking to expand and scale out of state as the returns and market have been quite difficult in my area:...

(Probably same in attorney state but I have no experience there.)it will make inspection problematic.

But after working with him, I realized he was very systematic and mostly cared about closing deals without much care for the client's long term needs.Here’s an example: I had a $10K escrow with the seller—$5K due upfront and $5K after the inspection.

As a MF agent who spends a large amount of time calling apartment owners (or rather, numbers purporting to be apartment owners), please believe me that reaching out to random run down buildings owners is unlikely to get you any deals.