Without investors putting money into the marketplace, our economy would not function, grow, or innovate.

The accounting function sucks. 

Hire two cleaning people and two on-call maintenance repair people to rotate in/out5.

Commercial lines of credit aren't used as much, but can serve the same function. 

Of course, all that might mean functionally is that your appraisal value would be a lot lower than you might want, OR - that they put something on the file indicating that an item or two needs to be corrected before it would be appropriate to use the property for collateral.The other caveat is that yes many counties / jurisdictions maintain a system for documenting what's been permitted or not, as well as the obvious assessor's pages that usually show number of bedrooms, square footage, among other things...

If you need more details on this strategy, use the search function on the top right, and there're a lot of blogs/articles written about this. 

Hoping I also performed the tag function properly this time.

Richelle, if the flooring is functional but just ugly, I'd consider leaving it and earmarking the funds to upgrade it after a tenant or two, or as a retention bonus for a good tenant.  

The wall and footer are tied together with reinforcing steel which keeps the wall from rotating about the connection to the footer.

The most valuable things I got from my MBA (Northeastern University in Boston) were:Broad (but shallow) exposure to all of the main corporate functions.