You could have her "quit claim" it over to you but that isn't a clean way to do it.

Or say 12/1 which is after I have finished moving/cleaning/advertising and got a tenant signed? 

After some landscaping, carpet and paint, handyman work, professional cleaning, and photographs, it cost me 3.7k.

I have off shore investors … the only issue I had was my bank wanted to check the patriot act box.when I was getting multi million dollar wires into my accounts.. they wanted to make sure it was clean money.to that end my investors came to the us and we had a meeting with my bankers.. going direct to your attorneys trust account could work.. but the funds I brought in went into my account. 

The house is in great shape and was maintained well by the tenants, but I'm sure we will need a day or two of miscellaneous cleaning/repairs.

Figure out side hustles you can do, mowing lawns, start a window cleaning company, etc., anything to stack some cash, because with a house hack on a multi family unit, you're going to need at least 5% down.

I peeked in the windows today, saw 3 prong outlets, an electric panel outside that looked like it had current wiring, and I saw PVC pipe in the crawl space. 

I was wondering if I should switch to natural gas or electric baseboard or just hang on to oil?

Is there a ballpark sq ft cost to do a simple clean, paint, carpet etc?

If your submarket doesn't fully support RUBS I still think it's a good idea to consider lowering rents and implementing it because tenants that are forced to think about their water and electricity usage tend to use less of it.