Its that, or get some muscle to help you move in and secure your property.Buy the property with the contingent that outside of closing costs and one dollar, all money from the sale is held in escrow until the property is vacant.

I went through an ugly divorce a few years back where she took over the rental property we had, I kept the house we were living in, and I had to declare Chapter 7 bankruptcy. 

I assume you're aware it's been declared a nuisance by Dayton.  

Many state have (since the great recession) declared that a defaulted homeowner is not a ready, willing, and able customer and that 'dealings' with these owners constitutes predatory practices.

Our contracts even have a paragraph where you have to specifically declare if you, the buyer, are a licensed Realtor.

The umbrella is over and above all underlying liabilty coverages (that you declare). 

Unless the tenants decide to leave on their own (which is unlikely given that they'd need to pay market rents somewhere else), to my knowledge you won't have a way to increase rents for at least another year following the end of the emergency declaration, and even at that point the allowable rent increase likely won't be very substantial.

Not declaring rent is something that would come to light pretty quickly in an audit anyway. 

On the permit app, I’ll have to declare ‘everyone with a financial interest’ in the LLCs, and once a permit is issued, all those people will no longer be eligible.

I'm glad I didn't know the house had been condemned when I did the project - I don't know that I was mentally prepared for that uncertainty.The process here goes:First declared a public nuisanceThen fully condemned and put on a list to demoThat said, most cities have very limited resources with regards to actually demolishing and give a huge nod/bias to situations where investors are fixing stuff up.