Buy the property on how it's performing.  

Yes in theory you should shop around, but that's a lot of work and often times you may end up with 3 equally mediocre results - or you could ask someone who has already done that.Problem with lenders is that you can olny shop rates and maybe fees, you can't shop for performance. 

Myself, I have almost 3 decades in the housing industry professionally, I have performed at the highest level of skill, licensure and quality in literally every single aspect of real estate from point of raw land planning and development, building design, build, renovation, remediation, inspection, investing, contracts, negotiations, deal engineering etc etc, I am ridiculously over-the-top experienced and qualified and that is why clients go with myself AND my team, it's not my beautiful Shrek like smile, it's my beautiful brain and decades of knowledge and performance because they know any issue that could come up, I have probably dealt with it 18 times before if not 180 and I can solve it.

Based on the list above, are there certain areas/tasks that you would tackle first before others?

The Civil Engineer can perform a due-diligence review on the site before going with a full contract for design.

Would also like to know how many of them are performing. 

But given the moratorium I wasn't really sure what to do and I don't want to have to evict her but I am out of patience and I feel that if I don't make her perform this could drag out for several more weeks.

If anything, take the funds that are performing, or expected to perform, the worst.Good luck.

You cannot just decide you want a price reduction for no reason.The repairs called out by the appraiser will need to be completed and another visit from the appraiser will happen to confirm their completion.Typically the seller performs those repairs.  

I did not know to ask neighbors questions about the HOA and their performance.