If so, have any of the fire walls been improperly penetrated?

Tenant smoke in garage and the smell already penetrate drywalls.

Embrace making all the calls!

They are knowledgeable about Mecklenburg courts embracing Legal Aid to help tenants (plus their counter suits against landlords). 

The Reality is that no matter the time in history there will always be risk and uncertainty in life, embrace it.

She also had worked with the selling agent many times before so that was a relatively smooth process.She also had connections with a good home inspector and lender (Embrace Home Loans) and they were great!

Where one bank might deny you, another might give you a warm embrace and a cup of coffee.

Most don't go with floating rate paper because A) most dont understand it and B) they dont want unconformatable conversations with equity when the rates change but...you buy a cap and the cost of the cap plus the 1% exit can be less than the YM/STD DEF..no one is a fortune teller but most planned refis will embrace the floating rate deal if a 10 year term with 3 years of IO and refi out on month 37 (once IO ends) then recast the IO period with a new 10 year term and 3 years of IO. 

These industries now recognize that they need to change, they need to be more adaptable, and they need to embrace technology.

You'll need to kind of embrace the messiness of navigating situations like this and in turn, embrace a flexible view of your tenant relationships.