If that's the case, you can't do any renovations until you have it professionally deleaded or it would be flagged for Unauthorized Deleading and you can get fined and the property would never be able to get a Lead Certificate, only a letter of Environmental Protection that states you did illegal work, got caught, then had to pay a professional to clean up the mess.

That said, he had quoted me a build price between $85-$90/sf using the footprint area (~$270,000, call it $300k with contingencies).

You'd be able to get a letter of environmental protection saying you did illegal work, got caught, then had to hire a professional to come in an clean up the mess. 

Property Inspection, Termite and 4 Pt/Wind Mitigation (walk every unit if possible)21. multi over $1 million will need a Phase 1/Environmental report.

Too many restrictions, fees, Etc....Add environmental regulations in states like California and it becomes near impossible to build housing as needed.STRs the problem?

Buy them later when you have a footprint in the town.

Environmental issues?

this could be relevant if you have environmental issues and cleanup, but still, no disclosure requirement. 

Demo & AsbestosWe have demo scheduled in a couple weeks, however, prior to starting demo we decided to get an environmental study to test for asbestos in the building materials.

Do you have a previous gas tank or spill and you need to do environmental mitigation?