Again, this was only the fact because taxes were the big flaw in the property.

I clearly thought wrong and discovered it was a mandatory cost expense if the tree is violating code.

I also just discovered that Udemy has a lot of information/courses.I realize that the information I need could likely be found here on BP, but I think I learn better with a step-by-step method.

The lenders likely won't even discover the issue, but there is a definite risk of having the loans called.

They will be conveyed to you at closing...amazing how many BP investors discover there were none collected.  

The electrician's bill for this one was less than $200, so we got off easy.While driving around checking for storm damage at all of our other houses, we discovered that the tenants at house #6 had acquired chickens.

Had these bricks been structural in nature, like your situation, that bowing may have been a fatal flaw and caused us to have to knock the house down. 

As you've discovered each one has it's own pricing.

I recently discovered Kris on YouTube and he motivated me to really push this rental property investing.

Not at all, if investors would stop chasing their tails as they march like lemming's over the BRRRR cliff and rethink their analysis, they would discover you can have both modest cash flow, appreciation, and stability.My most successful clients understand the internal rate of return (IRR); they make the best investment decisions and have the most stable portfolios.Think of the IRR as the rate of growth an investment is expected to generate using both modist cash flow and appreciation.With IRR, successful investors understand that the initial investment is more than likely negative; it is an outflow.