Originally posted by @Dick Rosen:I certainly don't know Oregon law but Section 8 is not a protected class and can be discriminated to the best of my knowledge.

You need to get things fixed asap when you have a giant hole that not only lets the weather in, but is a major security problem.So, I vote you call your insurance company and ask them what to do. 

All in all, yes, I am an *******, but any tenant who wants to effectively steal from me is getting whats coming to them, while me operating in line with the letter of the law, to the fullest extent.P.S. if you really wana be a dick, sell each debt to a separate collection agency, so they can each call a maximum of three times per day, for a total of 12 calls per day legally.

He has a giant tree very near the property line.

Thomas S. okay, if he's going to be a dick about it...

I worked on a pair of transactions some time ago wherein they 1031'd a pair of Piedmont SFRs (the buyers in 1 of the 2 cases were their own tenants who decided to be honest on their tax returns for a couple years, after having rented for quite a while) into some big giant office building in the midwest (I didn't work on that transaction, so don't ask me all the details). 

Thank you Dick for your response!

You just took a giant leap in the right direction; signing up on Bigger Pockets!

Some lenders/cities have issues with putting up a single, giant wall to partition a SFR to a MF, for example, so it could be much safer to simply build an accessory unit.

Hi Dick and Gita:Thank you for your responses.