At times, the odor was so strong you can smell it walking in the main entrance into the lobby.There's been some discussions here on remediating it with chemicals.

Any bank will look at many factors but for a residential loan (which you would need for a building up to 4 units), it mainly comes down to your DTI (debt to income) ratio.

If the main complaints are limited to battery life, I think I'm going to give these a whirl and report back.

As a starting point, I would definitely listen to the podcasts, which you can find from the main menu.

Carpet throughout the main living areas, vinyl flooring in the kitchen and bathrooms, microwave, stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, fenced in patio, and fireplace.

The purpose of this is for security.

I did some research on the top lenders in Maine where I want to buy and it seems to be that every lender has the same basic criteria for FHA loan is this true?

Take it for what it's worth, mainly a prediction, but the investment firm I work at seems to think recession is likely late 2019/early 2020 with stock market seeing declines before that.  

For a change in ownership, simply change that first part to:I am proud to announce that ownership of 123 Main Street has been transferred to 123 Main Street LLC as of 03/18/2018.

This is just my opinion and shouldn't be misconstrued as advice, necessarily.Ultimately, as Harris said, the first deal is mainly about learning lesson(s) and building off of said lessons.