I love Salem ( was raised there ) and I think you can do well there in the blue collar areas especially.Good Luck!

(I'm actually asking)  Here's my take: -Lawyers are good advisors as they will raise some 'angles' that you or I might not have thought of-A Gold Rule: "Everything is negotiable", and it would be prudent to ask your investors what their expectations are. 

Doing that would raise our payment only slightly, instead of lowering it which was the original intention. 

I wanted to be able to stay home and raise her so I quit my job and jumped into real estate full-time.

Do you want to learn how to pass the test, or learn some actual real world working information?  

If I am able to do it, it would raise the CoC considerably.Thoughts?

There are some alternative ways of raising the cash....ie. private money/partnerships/

BathroomThe receptacle on the east wall of the front room tested as having reverse polarity.GARAGEIPMC 604.3 - The taped wire connections on the ceiling must be in a junction box.The receptacle must have GFCI protection.IPMC 703.1 - All openings and pipe penetrations in the ceiling and around the perimeter of the ceiling must be sealed with fire rated material.I find it hard to find someone to take care of these.

I must say that it's in a flood zone so I pay the dreaded flood insurance each year - and the premium was recently just raised . 

I know the right thing to do is to upgrade the system, but I'm predicting that this could be one of a number of points to be raised during negotiating, and if I say "I'm going to have to install hard-wired smoke detectors with interconnection between units" I want to make sure I'm right.