It sucks to just loose the cost of an inspection but long term it’s a great investment.

Mean time, she is practically squatting without paying rent and we must resolve this mini crisis because we are loosing rental income for couple months now and hefty eviction/court fees as the days drag on. 

If they dont tell you, insinuate you will file an ethics complaint, that will likely shake it loose.

I know the market is red hot, and we are not in a hurry as we are looking to invest excess cash flow into a couple of houses a year over the next six or seven years.

A couple of thoughts from a curmudgeonly old home inspector re Redfin and R.E. sales in general. 1) Judging from your excessive use of exclamation marks you're a natural for real estate sales!!!! 

@Tom ShallcrossAgree, this is still and option, however I may loose money on the sale.Instead, I would still want to turn it into a good investment and found the option of seller financing a creative way of doing it.

Do this in a market with an excess of rental housing supply and you're going to suffer vacancies. 

Don't loose a good deal because you get distracted over things that won't matter two years from now. 

This is what Ohio is doing with land contracts which the reason they are done in Ohio is because of the excessive cost and time to foreclose.

And violating the lease would mean they would loose their security deposit.