I would offer to propose a lease renewal for a year closer to market rent.

Otherwise, you’ll need to apply for a zone change which is easiest if your proposal is consistent with the city general plan.

If I am to propose this solution or opportunity to a home owner; they are signing my documents, not the other way around.

I know of some RE agents that do what you are proposing ... they trade their services for equity instead of cash commissions ... the difference is that they also throw in property management services into that mix, target high net worth individuals that are out of state and/or don't want to mess with hands-on part of investing, and they build their experience on their own investments first (don't use your investors as a guinea pig ever), they still put some of their own cash into the deal as their investors want to see that they have some "skin in the game", and they do it with multifamily properties (sometimes big commercial property, sometimes 4-plexes).

The emails might be a tad high, but I have no idea if you were asking him to explain to you, in painstaking detail, exactly how the various different tax bill proposals throughout the fall might or might not affect you, if you were asking him to calculate possible 1031 deferrals, preparing a significant tax plan, or whatever.  

Even if it is fairly dented, the solution proposed above would work.

After months of prodding them along and with the help of an interpreter they used when buying the house, I have finally gotten a written proposal for them to pay on the judgment from their lawyer.They are offering to pay about 70% of the judgment amount, which I think in the collections game is a pretty good win.

Two ways to look at it and propose options.

REQUIRED NOTICE Within 48 hours of submitting the application for a Short-Term Rental Unit Operating Permit to the Division of Taxation, theOperator shall send a Neighborhood Notice form supplied by the Division of Taxation, buy first-class mail or hand delivery to all property owners whose property is adjacent to the property at which the Short-Term Rental Unit is proposed as well as any existing neighborhood organization in that community.

Police presence is heavier and there is a proposal to open a new police station right on Frankford ave. https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/10/12/proposed-new-police-district-in-kensington-a-very-giant-leap-to-cut-down-on-crime-drugs/I plan on doing some of the work in house.