A lot of investors are making there tenant "buyers" responsible for repairs but if issues arise and the tenants seek legal consult you can get in some deep trouble. 

Auto shops just need a deep cleaning.

This has motivated the seller to accept my deep discounted offer, for which I'm willing to do some of the heavy lifting.I'm interested in truncating the wait time as well as avoid a possible eviction process after the 60 days is up.

You need to really figure out what product type and then do a deep dive into the market to see if it is even feasible. 

If you want to go into the deep end of multifamily investing Brian Murray has a great book Crushing It in Apartments and Commercial Real Estate: How a Small Investor Can Make It Big. 

Honestly I read the book and I took from it just dive deep into the market your targeting and drink deep.

After you've been at this for a while, you develop a deep disdain for people who need to spend premiums for bigger and better houses for their personal living situation before they have build an unassailable financial position -- those people are marks in the real estate game, not players.Real estate can be a hell of a passive wealth maintenance strategy.

The deep discounts and great deals we saw 3 plus years ago, are much harder to find today. 

Luckily, we knew a plumber and were able to install a sump pump system that drained out to the alley (a ton of hard work - digging a 3 ft deep trench 50 yards in the classic baltimore rocky soil).

If you are experienced enough and have deep enough pockets you might consider it.