If you talk to a residential lender, they will usually try to convince/advise you to move Title into your personal name, sell you the loan, then you can move Title back. 

The agent advised that I ask an attorney to file a request w/ town to waive off the taxes or reassess to reduce them because they're exorbitant.

And here is a link to a trained Attorney, hired to advise Realtors on real estate law via our local Realtors Legal Hotline.   

@Mark Askew - there are solid cap rates in place in Anchorage for commercial - if you're looking for that nature of an investment - doing a wholesale deal here from out of state without some local knowledge... probably not advisable.

After talking with my attorney, he advised that if the condition is bad enough and in rough shape, I can try and deem the property uninhabitable so that I can evict them that way since the property might be safe for them to live in.I'm guessing I"m going to have to bring in a county or city inspector?

Any advise or direction would be appreciated. 

@Joshua Bailey Not to scare you or anything, but I am new to REI and I was highly advised against using a HELOC for investing in my first property.

I have worked with quite a few military members here in the Chicago market, and I always advise them to think long term.

For all intents and purposes, I started as a Turnkey investor back in 2003 before the word took off as a marketing term.I wrote a book called the Turnkey Revolution and based a lot of it on advise I've given here on BP.  

We advised him against this, but it's ultimately his cabin, so now his annual income has dropped $10K because that deposit chases away so many potential guests.We have had to "fire" a few clients, because they won't get out of the way so that we can do our jobs.