Any tips on finding an inspector?

I can't imagine why they are requiring drawings to remove a door, but each municipality is different.Another route you might take is to have an inspector come out for a courtesy inspection and look at the door and explain to him how you are going to frame to remove the door (make sure you are providing for a header in the framing).

It was a very bad first six months...house needed more repairs than the inspector ever found, it took 3 months to find a qualified tenant, and I didn't learn at first how to say no to the tenant once they were living there.

Tenants would not pay rent, when you go through with the eviction process, they would call the city inspector, and the inspector would cite any and every small detail, no property is perfect but they’ll always find something as minor as it is to write you up.

If the inspector finds any safety issues, we'll fix them no-questions-asked.

It doesn't sound as if you have any specific knowledge that there was unpermitted work done, and if you don't have any knowledge of unpermitted work, it's not a lie to say that in the disclosure.Of course, if you do know for certain (you've checked the records or a local inspector has verified the work was unpermitted), you probably don't want to lie.

There won't be any special EPA inspectors going around.

Get a very good inspector and have them be pessimistic when they do your inspection.

If it is a bid job and the building inspector wants to "shoot the breeze" I take the time because I'm spending my money.

If you look within your current living area or outside of the area you live in you will need a good home inspector , contractor, realestate agent, title company , attourney and sources of finance to be successful.