No Jeanette Williams , Rosston Smith is advising the original poster to steer clear of the applicant and not responding to you.

Agreed with @Kory Reynolds’s points, great stuff here.Joseph - I’d advise your CPA take a look at IRC 301(b) and its corresponding regs.

I would also advise that you speak to the condo HOA regarding renting the unit. 

Aside from RE (but business goals related) I'd like to do financial advising on a consulting basis, am currently getting my CFP, and have been pursuing financial independence for six years and hope to be FI within the next 3-5 years.I'd love a mastermind group that can discuss real estate and business/investing goals and progress, be inspired by others successes, and learn from one another.

For my CPA SMEs - I guess it's probably late now, but (assuming the bill passes) how did you advise your clients on the proposed retroactive changes to the bonus depreciation for 2023 - from 80% back to 100% - did you advise to file extensions or amend next year or something else?

Given your question however, I get the sense that this might be your first time managing a project like this and so would strongly advise that you connect with a General Contractor that you can trust as it will end up saving you a lot of time and money over doing it on your.

Any advise on actions an investor can take to remove squatters?

And even if you're not working with an agent, do you have someone advising you?

A great bookkeeping or rehab team will be able to advise you a bit on this, but your active involvement in managing and reviewing those team is how you'll get the best results. 

I would advise to use a short term hard money loan, acquire it quickly, rehab it, and refinance into a long term DSCR loan.