@Michael Plaks Honored to me mentioned by you, in such esteemed company!

One metric they provide is new construction sales, which I can use to calculate % of total sales and see whether that value is trending up or down.My question is, in general is a market more or less desirable if there are a lot of new builds hitting the area? 

Is it simply not up to code?  

Glad to finally say hello.

Are you hiring a GC or planning to GC on your own? 

You can do a subject to transaction but that is not legally assuming the loan.the banks got rid of assumable mortgage long time ago. 

@Mindy Rosscup, you want a contract that is specific to the laws of your state.

You have to ask lots of questions and make sure you have some level of understanding about cost segregation and not relying 100% on someone else, even though that is what you are paying them for.   

I would recommend getting the tenant to admit that they had done something to cause the problem.

Look forward to meeting.