I’m sure others here are also running into this issue, so any recommendations and referrals would be greatly appreciated!

I doubt if you'll have any issue with your hold period since it is all about your intent anyway.

It’s ideal to have them view the property after the inspection, so they can consider any issues discovered during the inspection in their bid.

issued guidance saying that you can use LLCs if you get approved to do so.

Depending on the severity of smoke damage and structural issues, it could be a huge challenge for first time flip.

However, your issue would be lack of equity.

If you had no knowledge and they broke the lease I'd issue a notice of non renewal, but give them the option to remove the cats.

Shayan,Best option to avoid issues and stay risk free along with having a better approval chance would be to go with a Cash out refinance.

Let your criteria do the filtering for you.Regarding retention and renewals, the only time I have asked people to leave is when they have had rent payment issues and/or damaged the property. 

Do you have any rust issue?