A judge may decide that they are entitled to some discount of rent for the time that the violations existed but we are talking about a month or so at the most and it sounds like the violations are minor so they have a weak case. 

Its tough to fix bad habits of existing tenants.

There are a lot of investors around for sure, just in the past two months two houses on my street have been bought and flipped without even making it to the market.Jeremiah,I have noticed that multi-families just don't exist in some of the nicer parts of town...

If you already have forced air heat just do what you've been doing and use the existing duct work.

That is why I think I will choose just to buy existing hotels.

This is why buyer's agents exist.

What does his current lease say (if it exists)? 

One of the Podcasts mentions an owner financing note may be sold but what other concerns exist?

These are just some ideas, banks differ from State to State so those options may not even exist where you live.

Once the newness of these buildings wears off, they will be on the turn-over treadmill just like their existing properties.Perhaps these landlords are resigned to turnover being an ummutable factor in their business model, where our goal is to reduce it to 5% or less.