I picked up the financial responsibility for a brother who needed a defense lawyer, then for another with 4 kids who lost his job.

@Ryan Pomerening you still need to contact that lawyer about the answer to this question as this is no legal advice, just an opinion of what I would do.I would get a copy of the existing lease and bring that with me to an attorney and ask the attorney for an agreement to voluntarily end a lease early. 

I've been advised to speak with a local Real Estate Lawyer or Accountant before purchasing my first place.  

If I do then maybe with this prop, I should run it by an accountant or lawyer to check the validity of the deductions and the contract details, if I get there?

A lawyer told me to just follow the eviction laws.Seems so unfair.

Work with a real estate lawyer to draw up some "you promise me your 1st born loan docs" and make friends with a Realtor to get you good comps so you know for sure that you're loaning on a property being purchased at a deep discount. 

Do I need a property manager or lawyer at this point to check out the leases?

In addition, the statute exempts from its ambit any contract-for-deed sale where the buyer is represented “throughout” the transaction by a licensed lawyer or a licensed real estate broker or salesperson.

5.She is trying to get $50,000 total to try to fix up the reno project plus pay for the expensive repairs on the other properties.6.She would also like to refinance the other properties which may be under commercial loans but deeds are in trust.One is over 12% and others I believe are over 8%.7.Her personal property has a mortgage for $130,000 and is showing about that value on auditors website + corelogic/Zillow.However, they completed gutted and rehabbed their house many moons ago and turned it from a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom church house into 5/6 bedroom 4.5 bath house.I believe theres plenty of equity to be found here but she’s afraid if she gets an appraisal for HELOC either she will waste money and it will come out to what the internet says or the county will reappraise the house and raise her taxes significantly which she can’t afford right now.8.She has a promissory note from a lawyer my stepdad lent $50,000 to some time ago.The note was due for $83,000 balloon in 2011 but he has only paid $5,000 on it.I don’t know the full details of this but she is supposed to send me a copy.Thanks for any help...this is pretty complicated, especially since I don't have the paperword to really lay down the exact details. 

I figured to be conservative I would need to hire a lawyer once every two years for a potential eviction or just small claims stuff.