But governments lack creativity, instead favoring quantifiable and uniformly applied standards, and given our affinity to currency it's no surprise that the default yardstick to measure how much you know would be how much money you have. 

I was surprised to find there doesnt seem to be a go-to spot. 

Surprisingly the units were well cared for and most had new roofs.

What we worried about was a bait-and-switch dynamic, where you start with a low price assuming that everything with the house is perfect, then pretend to be surprised when it isn't.

Every house I’ve purchased has had ‘surprises’.

You don’t want to be surprised later that they won’t refi the type of property you bring to them.  

My experience is that there are no good surprises to be found in the inside of these properties.  

I'm surprised that between your rental income, whatever it is you do for a living that allows you to save up investment property down payments, and owning a bunch of real estate, that you are still even qualified for the program at all...

It’s an old property (built in 1790) so there would be surprises, I’m sure.

Really surprised you got good subcontractors too.