Thanks for the responses; this is all very valuable information for someone (myself and the other inspector involved) who has not been in a situation like this and does not really want to be.

Tim, I think you are right. We thought of that scenario that, if subpoenaed, there would likely be no payment for our time. Phillip, we have already witnessed the "unrealistic expectations", as the people we talked with initially thought we would take the findings to the owner and encourage him to remedy the problems. We, of course, explained that we could not do that and explained why we could not. In fact, the owner has already seen these apartments and has chosen not to take steps to correct the problems.

Thanks again, it really helps!
David