Title company just let them know ahead of time.

As for buying straight up conventional or private, in a non-owner occupied situation, in my experience, you are not likely to find a solution for less than 20% down in the general market place. 

After a few days, I have heard from the tenants telling me to start the eviction process and to go ahead with the increased rent.This is my first property and I'm not entirely sure what to do here.

@Jon Reed State Farm does have a limit as a heads up, and you are very close!

I had assembled my motivation ahead of time, in the form of images of people crossing the finish line at other ironmans.

@Ijeoma P.Have you considered pulling property lists and going straight to owner?

A great local one to the Chicago area is the Straight Up Chicago Investor Podcast.

I had my agent ask the city official about the variance, and the info she received was that we can't do this ahead of time; we would have to wait until the total loss occurs and we're in the rebuilding situation.

Here's the email to Wyandotte County courts of you wanna just email them and ask if you can go ahead and file papers.

So far Im ahead of schedule @ 2 properties in the first year and everything still seems to be moving in the right direction.