So far I have gotten by pulling building permits the last 10 years with graph paper and walk through inspections with the building official.  

Vernon and Effingham, I do home health therapy and have always heard that it's hard to find quality rentals in small towns.I feel like it's a niche market that could be tapped into.

These topics have been covered in depth.I suppose my main piece of advice is that if you rent out a room in your house and you need that income to qualify for your next place then make sure you make it as official as possible.  

is an official statement of HUD - - you're yelling into a hurricane. 

I find it difficult to figure out how you did all of that for only 30k but you did save a lot on sweat equity. my experience is, even if you do the work yourself, you still need help.if you pulled a permit, which I'm sure you did, I'm surprised the village let you do all of the plumbing yourself. that's definitely needed by a licensed guy and registered by the health dept (even though plumbing isn't all that difficult to DIY).great to live in a flip; just would take a while before it's functional to live in but definitely attainable with heat and hitting the local health club to take a shower. :)maybe it took him 8 months from beginning to closing. if it was an 8 month rehab, he definitely spent more than $30k in labor & materials.

Is there some health care law that precludes me from enforcing the lease provisions?

Be very careful because there are tons of websites out there pretending to be the official website.If you want to use the reports to monitor your credit, don't order all of them at once.

Our local Board of Health is saying they will not allow a shared well "Because we say so."

That really burned my cookies, so after feb rent was officially missed, they were given 2 options: a pay or quit notice, which required them to be out by friday$200 if they got out by wednesday at 5 pmThey didnt take the wednesday offer (which saved me $200) but were out by friday.

I have an official appraisal from last February that runs $220,000 on the house I live in.