Your investment team will find and analyze properties and provide actionable analytics, not MLS sheets.

If the score is low and the credit report shows the potential score, we get them together with the credit reporting company we order credit through to figure out what course of action they need to take to get their scores up.  

Selling high and buying high is generally just a trade and the taxes are an expense.

One of the major trades is in ground up self storage projects is metal framing and metals are at a historic all time high without any signs of slowing down.

If it's the latter, in the mid 90's there were a gazillion homes that used wood product siding that was problematic to the point that there were class action lawsuits concerning it and many homes were resided under conditions of the settlement.

They may also be able to get together and file a lawsuit blocking the action.

You were willing to trade $2500 for them to come to do the job, despite the fact that you were bothered enough by the no call, no show to write a scathing review one day after they had not performed.

At heart I am a trades men and a accountant.

There isn't really any good way to remove all the risk without a no further actions letter.

Also big shout out to @justin R for letting me come onto his development sites to help out and learn some tricks of the trade.