Wanted to share with everyone the home that my Co has built that beats the code in energy efficiency by 62%.It's 13,000 sq ft (not including 4 car garage).The average winter temp inside of the home is 75 degrees from 6 am till 11p and 72 degrees at night.In the summer interior temp is 74 degrees with humidity of 30%.Average monthly heating, cooling and electric bill is under $200

The mortgage that was vacated was originally $130k (curious because the property isn't worth half that)Called city to see if there were any open code violations: there were none.  

It is the sellers problem not yours and they will decide if the can or are willing to comply with the request based on state landlord tenant codes and how motivated they are to sell.

How you can get around that with out alarming the tenants is to tell the owner someone from the insurance company will be coming by to inspect the property to make sure everything is up to code so the insurance can be renewed.

Decide how much money you have access to, & the zip codes, city or state you want to focus on.

Code Enforcement provides a list of all code violation properties in Texas.. by City. 

@Jason Bott- keep in touch Jason, Auto Owners was supposed to be non-renewing owners in my 43608 zip code so I'd expected to get dropped.

I've begun to educate myself on properly screening potential tenants, taxes, codes/laws, leases, insurance, and budgeting.

A bunch of other stuff that was minor as well but shouldn't be too bad to fix up.So I went to the seller and showed the home inspection and they said "we will get our handyman out to fix it but it might not be to code" (SERIOUSLY?!?!)

Here's one: Does code require smokes in every bedroom, or only in new construction or major reno?