You can insulate floors, bathroom & bed room walls for noise but its not required.IRC - International building code for one and two family dwellings.

What is the best site to use for background, eviction, credit, criminal checks? 

Agency lenders will cut your terms solely on location, based on their own internal guidelines. 

Thus, I often look at the current gross income to calculate my internal "acquisition cap rate" because I know how I would operate the property and roughly what my expenses will be, especially if I have experience in that particular submarket.

@Brett HearnI would lower credit score requirement to around 525 or 550 and up income requirement to 3X rent.Low credit score usually isn’t an issue if they don’t have evictions or criminal record and good landlord references.

After switching hands a few times over the years, the house at 2830 Park Street was purchased by the Florida Cabinet using what’s called the Internal Improvement Trust Fund.In 1982 the state Department of Corrections took control of the house and used it for what’s called a Women’s Adjustment Center — a sort of halfway house for female inmates with short sentences.Now, a Department of Environmental Protection spokesman said his agency is in charge of selling it off, along with other excess state properties.

In talks he would let that go for 79k which means he is asking around 100k for the house.The house has a brand new roof and has recently had foundation repaired .The internal look to have new electrical I have not walked the house yetPlease help!!!

The fee is $10K plus criminal chargesAs a whole seller, you'll take a title on yourself, complete POS and then sell it again?

The wires looks like they have been stolen and cut, the furnace and A/C are damaged with some of their internals taken.

not one or two.and I know others that got criminal charges and ended up in jail as there business model was to get into title never pay on the first and rip the rents until the bank took the home..