cash flow is nearly impossible so i'm buying for equity.My position is there are dark forces at play with big players behind the scenes.

The money is guaranteed, no one is running around with pit bulls and smoking god knows what and I get a free inspection each year by the Oakland Housing Authority or the Contra Costa Housing Authority. 

I had that concern that potentially illegal activities could be happening and I’m in the dark.

It is a side by side duplex with a ancillary unit (converted garage into a single family) and after running through it with my home inspector and contractor, it's looking like I'm going to need to put $40k into it in just safety upgrades (3 unfit falling over porches, deteriorated window sills, smoke alarms, second means of egress).

Here is the before and with the vines off...we still didn’t get all the little hairs of the vines off so we went with a dark color to hide what we couldn’t get. 

I would change the filters in the fall, check smoke detector batteries in the winter, etc.

Dark times. 

@Jim Mueller I would say you got a smoking deal at the smokies lol.

What I do normally is both email and mail a smoking violation letter.

I just got under contract for a seeming smoking  deal in an incredible location on South Hill, Spokane next to Manito Park.