3) If a flipper, what was the quality of their renovations?

If that is you, stop all of it and spend at least one hour every day looking at deals during the week and 5 hours on the weekend driving around and looking at listings and neighborhoods!

Tons of violations and the fines are adding up.

And quite a bit of cash.   

this is old  tried and true method of simply having you pay them to get credit cards .. there is no need to pay for this service.. unless you want to of course.. there is no magic bullet ut there that is going to give you credit and financing unless you actually qualify for it.But zero interest credit cards are used by some to do rehab and then pay them off issue is though your fico score drops like a rock the second you take on all these CC.Also starting out there is zero chance of getting any kind of business line of Credit that is unsecured.

Determine a fair amount of money to offer the tenant in exchange for vacating the property by a specific date.

If you have an accepted contract, the only thing I would really worry about is copies of all leases.If you are still underwriting and thinking of offering, the price is going to be more dictated based on your own knowledge and idea of what you can do with the property, versus what the seller financials state. 

I would rather rent at a slight loss than to be vacant for an extended period of time.

I use Roku Guest Mode on my TVs which wipes all logins at the end of their stay.

Hi Jesika,@Jesika IbarraWelcome to the forum, there is a wealth of knowledge on BP.