•Look for vacant houses, run down, fire-damaged, abandoned, with city notices evident.

The board is highly skeptical of this reason to evict because for most landlords it is their only option to get rid of below market tenants and has been extensively attempted and failed.For it to work it must be your first option, do not try to increase rent or ask them to leave to do reno work otherwise if they refuse and you invoke the owner occupancy you are guaranteed to be challenged and the board will rule against you based on the tenants evidence that you attempted other options to raise rents ahead of owner occupancy.

Send the letter now (with the options) so you have dated evidence for  court. 

I strongly advise buyers not to consider such claims unless there is rock solid evidence to back it up.  

That's evidence that they are not problematic or has not been problematic to the previous landlord, who tends to give a good recommendation just to get rid of them.The Statements also ensures that I wasn't set up by one of their friends "Pretending" to be their landlord.Of course a lot of Landlords don't go to my extreme, but this is NYC.

Your worried about your baby and honestly when women(this is evident in social psychology) get into funks like this they are more likely to stay it in and be scared/ponder it then shake themselves out and move forwardYou need to stop being stuck in your own mind and take a risk.

Letters only provides your title company evidence of her powers.

it might if you have it in writing from the realtor that the this access was included in your parcel.. however the e and o insurance will just look at the plat map that you should have looked at.. and you being a realtor its probably pretty evident that this was not part of the parcel you bought.. 

Ask them to provide a little evidence of what needs to be fixed (pictures) and go from there.

When they gather enough evidence to charge someone with unlicensed practice of real estate, I've found the defendant rarely wins.