If you can't figure it out, you might consider walking if the contract allows you point out the unpermitted work and say, "no deal."

The warranty company will only pay a small labor allowance to replace the failed part or unit.

Just don't allow your frustration with the situation to cause you to make any other potentially more expensive mistakes.John

Though with recent STR regulation changes, it looks like many SFH locations do not allow STR and can really only be used to LTR.

If you do, be sure to leave a message - Periscope allows people to leave comments - as well as any questions you might have.

I think a full time income as you learn the business will allow you to sidestep some of those pitfalls. 

It’s possible I did a poor job of explaining this, this isn’t really a service for investors per se’ in fact I would probably in an ideal enjoy doing this more for primary home buyers, this to me is an alternative to the 2.5% commission model, you cut out the most time consuming and often in my opinion least valuable part of the job which is showing people around and opening cabinets and seeing if they are soft close or not lol (I presume in this new world there will be more open house, more showings by listing agents, possibly more services that allow buyers to show themselves houses like the Redfin does on some of its listing) because of that plus the guarantee of getting at least something for your time allows you to theoretically charge much less while still providing the important parts of the job, like you should consider this area, let’s go over this home inspection repost, here’s how we should craft an offer etc, even spending time explaining rent vs buy calculation and personal finance etc, plus the being able to be paid regardless of your advice, I’ve had countless clients who has just a myriad of bad ideas I’ve talked out of, but of course you don’t get paid for that in this commission structure.

Not sure if that's allowed but to me that seems sketchy since they can come up with whatever pricing or repairs. 

some states do not allow zillow or any of the other sites to show what homes sell for, it's super annoying when you're trying to comp properties but don't have mls access in that state. if you've made 20+ offers on similar properties in the same area and it's not working, you have to do something different. do you have to go to a different market?

Right now, not all lenders allow this.I have my real estate license, but I'm not as concerned since my focus/purpose is not on being a buyer's agent.I hope this helps.