I buy foreclosures and distressed, so during the initial rehab I'm always finding porn, drug paraphernalia, occasionally falling through rotten floors, evicting wild animals, discovering termite damage, etc. 

This is where you discover if your dream home is really all you thought it could be, or a pig with lipstick. 

I just discovered that the rehabber has not closed the permit before selling the property to me.

Keep calling around to different lending institutions. 

She and some other friends have just recently started up a lending institution similar to what you're doing here.

Maybe it was there at the same time but wasn't discovered. 

The law is intended to address the state’s housing crunch by making it easier to build less-expensive “missing middle” housing — duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, cottage clusters and townhouses — in areas zoned for single-family housing.The Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development is currently developing rules to be completed later this year that will guide cities in implementing the new law.Last week, the Oregon League of Cities sent the department a letter on behalf of nine cities, including Salem, expressing concern that cities would be left with “very little flexibility” and prevent them from pursuing their own housing strategies or responding to “community goals.”The league’s letter asks that cities be allowed their own development standards and for minimum expectations from the state on just how much middle housing they should produce.Michael Andersen, a senior researcher at Seattle-based sustainability think tank Sightline Institute, said that what the league is asking for would considerably water down the law... 

We called the realtor back, told him what we had discovered, and he encouraged us to keep it.On to today.

The institutional investers only want 1 year leases, but there will be students who need one semester and only wont 6 months, and will pay a premium for the flexibility. 

She said it was important to include something like "if it is discovered that you falsified any of the information on this rental application after a lease has been signed, your least will be immediately terminated."