Their interest in harrassing you will not last long especially if they don't sense any movement.Potential tenants that are a pain during the application get worse and not better, don't go against your better judgement.

Coincidence or not, my due diligence would prove his 'judgement' was correct 80% of the time.

This may be one of those "gut" judgements, but when I think of criminal offenders, a married mother of 2 is not the profile on the top of my list.

The 95% value is far less then the default judgement.

If a foreclosure from a HML you may not worry about a deficiency judgement as the loan should be at a low enough LTV to cover the principal and interest.

I am working on buying the property that has a previous judgement lien on it for around $18,500 and a past due mortgage with $16,900 in unpaid principal, $2,632 in unpaid interest, $1,738 in Other Unpaid Expenses, and $5738 in Escrow Impound Shortages.Collectively this totals around $45,000.

There is more negotiating with tenants and making judgement calls than with rentals in higher income areas.

Unknown what the truth is.If they have unpaid IRS liens, or federal private loans in default with judgements the seller could have cleared this in thirty days. 

IMHO I would definitely check the municipality for judgements or liens against the property, particularly for the vehicles.

Ideally i would prefer STR because more cash flow but i just cannot find many examples in the area for me to make the judgement.