You can hire someone to fix the issues and then charge the borrower for the costs, most likely.

I contacted the permit office to get a retroactive permit but they said that they do not issue permits after the fact.

It's a preference issue, not a land issue. ;-)As the Beatles used to sing "You can't Always Get What You Want".

Jason, we're going through a similar issue.

Spending the time and taking the time and energy upfront to screen really well, meet and interview the tenants is absolutely a key to having the best chance as a "smooth" property in my experience.as a side note on "issues or problems" in general....I feel like the problems we think we will have as landlords or owners never seem to be the actual issues that come up, you can plan and prep and preventative maintenance to the cows come home, but something will come up!  

You really need to make sure your property manager in Cincinnati is completely dialed in and ideally, running "daily management" calls with their leasing department.

In fact, we have an emergency option on our call-tree and over 90% of the time it is used, it is NOT an emergency.FYI - in the PMC industry emergencies are referred to as, "blood or flood" issues.

The BEST way to do this is to contact the planning department that regulates the specific property you're looking to operate as a nightly rental.

The reason why ChatGPT recommends using this particular deed is to protect myself against any title issues before I owned the property. 

It may even be that a prior guest had an issue and that record would definitely exist - but someone at the platform would have to be reviewing the records.