For $45/month, you get $5,000 in rental coverage for things like missed rent, excessive damage, excessive cleaning, pet damage, and eviction costs.

Compare that to your offered purchase price and surely it would be more profitable for him to wipe his hands clean and let you take over.

You can probably find basics of these forms online and then have a local attorney clean them up and make them compliant for your state (or the lawyer could draft them although they'd be a bit more expensive).

Learned about clean out, demo, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, flooring, design, floor plans, functionality of a home, landscaping, and all the nerves and excitement that come with this business!

Just a little landscaping and cleaning goes a long way.3.

This is called a Deed in Lieu Foreclosure or Deed in Lieu (DIL).As an option to avoid a long drawn-out foreclosure process (more painful for the lender than the borrower), your friend might be able to negotiate a deal with her lender to accept the property and wipe the slate clean.

So we ditched them and used more scented cleaning supplies. 

I've heard of mentees who started cleaning up construction areas on a flip at the end of each work day or picking up supplies at Home Depot and delivering them to the job site.

Honestly, this just sounds like the tenant may just be a bit of a clean-freak/paranoid.

One additional tip, when I house hacked, I was very naive and assumed that everyone lived very similar to me (ie. wakes up early, goes to bed early, likes a clean space etc.).