I like your suggestion of targeting a property with existing tenants and minimal work needed so I can ease into the process while building my network of contractors. 

The loan is under my name, so the bank will send me - and the IRS!

So basically no money out of my pocket.

Hi nice to meet you and thank a bunch this  information is so helpful i have yet to close my first wholesale contract need guidance 

All good reading and listening, education is best and if you want to learn you have to ingest as much information as possible.I read many books that helped me, but my go-to is listeining to at least 2hrs of podcast with real examples per day.One very important things that "want-to-be" fails is to understand that real estate has many different specialities, so you have to focus your time in your real project.

So the heavy lift for the multi-family route for newbies is the extra capital needed.

I am looking to refinance in the near term either when rates drop to the 6.5% range into a conventional 30 year mortgage or as quickly as I am able into a first lien HELOC to be able to park paychecks into the mortgage and save a significant amount on interest or so it seems.

I appreciate that link so much and it would bea huge help!

Zoning is very loose in this area so was thinking maybe some smaller cabins or tree houses or maybe a yurt. 

Since this situation was so egregious (IMO), I would either boot them out now, or at least have a serious talk, real serious....If you're going to let them stay I would just get a really deep cleaning done, maybe a couple, and then replace carpet after they're gone.