We'll have our agent, myself, our handyman and a trusted contractor we have worked with for many years, my husband and my son whenever possible when we do inspections.

Here’s a quick checklist to cover your bases:Property Condition: Get a thorough inspection to assess major items like the roof, foundation, and HVAC—this helps you plan for any big repairs.Financials: Account for all costs, including taxes, insurance, maintenance, and property management fees if applicable.

The Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) is refundable during the Due Diligence (inspection) period, and goes hard at the expiration of the DD period.

Strategy is long term hold.Question - Apart from getting inspections done by a quality inspections company, what other items do I need to verify or consider as part of due diligence, before closing or in order to decide Go-No-Go?

Unfortunately being a rookie I went with an inspector that came from a company that had a solid website and the inspection failed to spot many items.

You can do as little as 0% down and maybe even get money back at closing if you can implement seller credits into your offer during the inspection period or prior to going in contract. 

It lost a significant amount of granules from home inspection and multiple roofers.

The buyers need (not request) a full 5%-6% seller assist and become complete menaces and eat into your margins with lengthy repair addendums following inspections. 

They judge one building a duplex, and the other two townhouses, by visual inspection.

When you purchased the current property you should have expected many of your repairs if you performed an inspection.