Are they giving advice about the policy and inspection? 

City has to inspect if I'm not mistaken to determine if threshold is met to where it is a tear down or rehabable.

Did you follow or attempt to follow everything on your end such as inspections, etc and were stymied?

The reason is the rent-to-price ratio is good so you can cash flow, and most of the West side doesn’t have a Point of sale inspection which is really annoying.

Tenants should pay  utilities - they're consuming those and landlords should 'inspect' what they expect on a quarterly basis and that includes verifying that utilities are current.  

Have them start touring you around to inspect the work about !

The latter means you can also do an inspection of the home and see how things are.

After the home inspection, we opted to cancel escrow and requested our EMD back.

Is there anything specific I should focus on during the due diligence process, particularly regarding title and document inspection, compared to a traditional sale?

Number 2, a lot of wholesalers forget that building a business is a long-term thing and they get greedy leaving no room left in the deal, #3, make sure you've disclosed evertything to all parties.