@Sean DohertyI have dealt with legal non conforming property before I think you would be ok, as long as you keep it rented and the property does not get damaged. 

Many hype this stuff and want to charge 2 to 5k non refundable fee's just to go into contract.. this leads to a lot of bad buys.. since you don't want to lose your deposit you close anyway.. 

@Brian H.I have read there are different departments of HUD and only the office/ department areas that are non essential will be furloughed or have to wait on pay .

On top of that collect an application fee from the tenant to cover your background check cost.Collect a non refundable deposit prior to move in.

Lot of non profits dump interns into DC that need housing, minority access, the washington center, many others. 

Purchase price: $830,000 Cash invested: $25,000 Sale price: $1,250,000 We purchased this commercial property which was once a Medical Marijuana grow.

November we filed for eviction for non payment of October and November.I had a 1 yr agreement with the property manager.

In addition, if you don't have enough funds in the solo 401k plan to make the purchase, the solo 401k can obtain a non-recourse loan from a third-party lender.

Everytime I look for Multi-family it either seems over priced or non-existent.

If she doesn't qualify on her own, or if it's too expensive to refinance a bunch of properties to achieve the goal, then it's time to start with commercial, non conventional, no income verification loans.