There are a million reason so find out what is preventing it from being closed.

It is in the neighborhood where I want to set up roots, and inventory is non-existent.

His own personal ethics prevented him from just walking away from the property.Other parts of the book cover the players in the local real estate game including real estate agents, developers, and city officials. 

The law is intended to address the state’s housing crunch by making it easier to build less-expensive “missing middle” housing — duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, cottage clusters and townhouses — in areas zoned for single-family housing.The Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development is currently developing rules to be completed later this year that will guide cities in implementing the new law.Last week, the Oregon League of Cities sent the department a letter on behalf of nine cities, including Salem, expressing concern that cities would be left with “very little flexibility” and prevent them from pursuing their own housing strategies or responding to “community goals.”The league’s letter asks that cities be allowed their own development standards and for minimum expectations from the state on just how much middle housing they should produce.Michael Andersen, a senior researcher at Seattle-based sustainability think tank Sightline Institute, said that what the league is asking for would considerably water down the law... 

This is the only thing preventing me from moving forward with this duplex/ADU plan

You could get the property thru a conventional loan with all 6 people's names on it, do a title change at point of purchase and change it to LLC, but you would have to make sure there's no clause in your loan that prevents you from switching titles to an LLC.If you have enough money outright to purchase in full than you can assign it under an LCC.

@George Damianeas I thought I had, but he's had to come out to repair a dishwasher 3 separate times and wasn't sure what the root cause is, so I'm still exploring.

Some lenders have "Overlays" which can prevent them from using certain deductions or the proposed rent. 

The water mediation crew was also covered where they brought Servpro to do demo and set up fans everywhere to prevent mold growth.

The way we think about renters is that they will pay what they can afford and will pay for the house that they "want"; this is very different than buyers, who generally can only buy what the bank will lend them and that's limited by what the market says the house is worth.So, my point is that if those cosmetic "fixes" will deter potential renters or prevent you from getting the most optimized rent, just fix it.