For example she starts dating a carpenter or a handyman type (or even worse a wannabe carpenter or handyman) who moves in and does work on the home and claims they should have equity too for making those improvements.

Maybe they know the owners or were able to get the owners to let them see the inside.The process would be significantly improved if there was an expiration time for the owners to become current on the tax debt. 

It’s more risk because no way I could have it leased before my 6 month leaseback is expired.

Or, structure it as a lease option that expires in 1 Yr on the new home.

At a bare bones minimum, the letter confirms the start/end dates of the lease, monthly rent, paid-through date, absence of any prepaid rent other than the current month, and security deposit amount.Better, it will include statements there are no unresolved claims or disputes or repair issues with the current landlord, and no verbal or written side agreements.Better yet, it will include a copy of the tenant's lease, and a confirmation the lease is a true and correct copy with no amendments.

Once you have them served and file the papers with the court, the court will assign a First Tier Hearing - basically a mediation session where hopefully you are able to work out a move out date certain (with the tenant paying use and occupancy).

In fact many properties being shopped around by wholesalers are actually just expired MLS listings (properties that failed to sell on the MLS) or active MLS listings under contract by a wholesaler. 

I’m sure the prices for things are out of date, but they were always going to vary by market anyway.

I think the easy button here is to buy the biggerpockets one, but double check if it is up to date on the most recent changes.

I've sold dozens of homes during the so-called Eligible Date Range, but figure any payout will be peanuts after all the lawyers get their take from the top.