I have spent half of the time fixing inferior "up grades" on my current rehab.

This goes way back to grade school days.The teacher had a desk that had a solid side to it that faced the students (perhaps that's for "modesty").

Redirecting gutters can help, french drains can help, grading the soil can help, etc.To secure the wall once it has started to fail (often, failure can be noted by horizontal cracks in the cinder block or concrete walls), I know of two ways:1.

It is concrete slab and could be considered below grade as it is built on a hillside (only has windows on one side of unit).

These banks do many SBA loans and can cut through the crud versus someone trying to sell you a pipe dream and has little experience pushing them through.These loans are hard to do and do take a long time with many steps.When the building has national corporate investment grade tenants with guarantees that is viewed as more stable income than mom and pop businesses occupying a building.

Our company specializes in B-C grade and frankly, these areas are slipping into the lower part of the B category based on locational issues. 

However you appear to still be influenced by the "employee think" mindset that you were raised with ("get good grades so you get into a great college which will allow you to get a good job....").

I get the cash flow model anyone with a 6th grade education can understand that its why 90% of americans buy rentals.. its the easiest to understand and unless you can scale or you buy in areas of KNown high appreciation over time.. they just kind of trundle on ..  

Don't forget to pack your Ultimate Guide to Grading Cleveland Neighborhoods for your Cleveland trip.

Doing the pharmacy program here.