That may help identify your angle on being able to connect with the proper people.

If they don't repay their taxes, then you can go through the proper channels to acquire the property.

The proper roommate addendum should reflect you adding 2 new occupants and should include language as such:the parties hereto agree as follows:1.

We used Anderson Business Advisors to set everything up properly and have not regretted the couple thousand we spent, as well as the monthly fee for them to keep up all our legal and give us unlimited access to attorneys.

So, if the idea of hunting for your own deals is attractive to you how about just hunting for deals in general, making some money on those by wholesaling them, and then every once in a while you find one that you can keep.There are other strategies too but I thought that one might be a little more inline with what you were thinking.  

If they don't repay their taxes, then you can go through the proper channels to acquire the property. 

If its been on the market for a month with only 1 applicant, then that surely sounds like an issue and sounds like it's either not properly marketed or the price is too high.

DSCR would be fine so long as you have the proper leases in place.

Keep looking for a CPA that can properly address your questions. 

If the deals are truly good, they will sell with the proper marketing lists, outreach, etc.