Many national STR PM companies working on a percentage of gross income (Daily rates + cleaning fees) charge an elevated cleaning fee.

Also, landlord and tenant are guilty of violating their agreements with the Section 8 program.At this juncture, the landlord should use the security deposit for what it was intended for.... damages, extra cleaning, unpaid utilities, unpaid fees, unpaid rent.  

The best run, most efficient and very clean city I have ever lived in and that includes places on 3 continents.

i cover pest control and lawn care on my stuff. keeps down on issues and i know the place looks good. for my student rentals i also build in a quarterly cleaning fee where my cleaning lady comes through and does a deep clean. extra eyes on stuff and parents happily pay it to ensure their kids have a solid spot. pass through cost for me and well worth it. 

We do not want put ourselves at risk of paying off the tax lien and then not getting a clean title or worse yet, having the seller back out on us.I hope that makes sense and I really appreciate any advice.

Just clean it out and move on.

By chance, can you point me anywhere where I can find a download/excel format deal sheet template that I can use with a hard money source showing all the calcs/totals on one sheet that is clean looking? 

But Generally speaking the parts of the rehab process are:Demo/Clean out/exterior workMechanical/RoofSheetrock/Kitchen?

The opened areas were all very clean.

You saved time and energy and money to have to file eviction, wait for them to be remvoed, then clean up, then put it back on market.