What can be helpful, which is worthless, but helps gauge how amicable the parties are, is to ask for a hand written letter from the other spouse promising they will in fact show up to sign off the day before or day of the closing, allowing the sale to happen. 

He then stated that he had a pending out of state offer on all five properties, but it was supposed to close that friday and didn't look promising. 

@Michael Willis, seems like you have done your homework, from the information you have posted the deal looks promising.  

I promise to add my suggestions to the list too.

She promised to leave the apartment by the end of next month.

After all, many tenants enter into leases and then just choose to ignore or violate provisions in the lease that the tenant promised to follow.

Short Answer = Yes it is Possible and I know several people who have done itThe Long Answer = The only way I have seen people with no money get started in Real Estate Investing and be successful long term is to get very good at finding motivated sellers.If you have no money, no credit and no experience but you have the Super Power of finding and attracting Motivated Sellers I promise you that you will also attract deep pocket investors who will partner with you, give you finders fee's etc.You see the hardest part for most people is finding the time to seek out motivated sellers as you could talk to 500 people before you find even one possibility and for most people they give up after the first 50 No answers.I wanted to share this with the new investors as I have seen too many of you get excited and burn out with no progress after 6 months. 

Speaking of renovation, I once read a news (donno if it's a fake one).

I promise there is a bank out there that will say yes, you just need to be patient and persistent and find a bank who is hungry for your business.

I have been quite conservative in the analysis but the result is still very promising.