When you get the title report, during escrow, you review it and let the escrow/title company know which exceptions/items on Schedule B that you are objecting to (which usually buyers are just objecting to any monetary liens, and unpaid taxes), meaning you are saying they need to be cleared prior to close. 

Due to item 1, adding an ADU can require years to start achieving any return (once the accumulated cash flow recovers the initial negative position).4) Adding an ADU is a slow process.

@Kenny Simpson Pre pays protect the lender and is a line item that is keeping the lending world in business.

Items like vacancy, future maintenance reserves, etc. can be variable along with your mortgage numbers depending on what financing you obtain. 

A few days later we met again went over some items in the inspection report.

You said a basic item like the toilet was dirty when you go stay yourself.

But some of the items I'd say to keep in mind are the following:1.

Use those to get an idea for your initial scope of work and itemize out everything you want done so you can get an initial cost estimate on your end. 

To which, I agree, would be an item for local governments to address and manage according to the desires of the citizenry.

Admittedly, I come from an area with very high transfer tax, but I could imagine that attorney fees, transfer tax, lender fees, and other miscellaneous items might come up during closing.