Please keep in mind that the better scenario for me might be whichever gets hims to budge QUICKLY.

If you really want to invest in US. 1)Go visit first & check out the location, know both the macro & micro market. 2) set up business entity, You need EIN or ITIN; whichever gives you the best tax benefit between your country & US & avoid double taxation. 3) set up US banking. 4) make connection with locals( lawyers, CPA, contractors property manager, Realtors... etc.

In North Carolina, you can only charge $15 or 5% late fee. whichever is greater.

Can we hold the tenants liable for the missing rent while we are readying the house and putting it on the market through the sale of the house/end of the lease, which ever is first? 

Regardless of whichever strategy you find a seller trying to use to sell their home, at the end of the day your max purchase price as the investor will always be the same: the most you can pay = ARV - rehab costs  - holding costs - closing costs - profits - cost of lending. 

Which event do you recommend I attend first since I'm pretty much a beginner? 

My goal was to someday do whichever that is going to provide me with steady cash flow every month.

See an attorney to set up whichever plan she selects.

Thank you ahead of time, and I apologize for any grammar mistakes, I'm typing this from my cell phone :)

If I have a delinquent cell phone bill with at &t and I do not pay it and they send it to collection well, they have violated our contract.