I could not deal with the lies, etc anymore and I realized that the work was shoddy (once I brought in a new contractor to review).

But if I can make more money selling chicken coops in Wyoming, I'd do that, too.

I lie in bed and keep myself up for hours looking at Trulia, Redfin, Zillow and BP.

Takes seconds and I've caught many would-be tenants giving me the name of a "friend" to lie and say they're the landlord.

And you didn't lie - why WOULDN'T you send the following one their way, now that you don't have a down payment again, assuming they compensated you proportionate to how great the deal you dropped in their lap truly was? 

When I mentioned that it was not possible to make an intelligent offer without 1 or the other (or both) he told me that was just the way it had to be.So I walked.On the original question, lying (in any form) is wrong.  

"the residential property may not consist of more that four family units AND ONE BUSINESS unit except in the case of certain joint loans"With mixed use, which also in theory can go FHA in some cases, the appraisal report is going to come back revealing that the real estate agents lied to you about the building and its characteristics, causing you to say "yes" (based on bad information) when you should have firmly said "no" upfront, and then the Realtors are going to throw you under the bus and say that you suck and it's your fault (that they misrepresented the property to you...).

The issue with my property is that it lies on the very outskirts of 'South Lake Tahoe' (even though it's only 4 miles from the lake itself) and while it was booking amazing for me on VRBO/HomeAway I always had trouble getting a good balance of share with AirBNB.  

It was a lie....I was upside down on my house in the blink of an eye.  

The numbers do not lie.