I would also call previous landlords and their place of employment to ensure they work there.

I bought a lot of foreclosed property after the collapse and my guess is that in every one of them the investors in the previous syndication had a 100% loss.

How long has it been storage?

That is more than any previous March on record.

The previous tenant might not have even been screened by the previous landlord and for all you know you could have inherited a nightmare tenant.

Filthy, dirty people and they left it a disaster zone of filth and junk in their apt, a common storage area (that the previous owner "rented" to them, which they also stopped paying for) and the basement. 

Pete is the city we went to college in, and would love to retire in.

In fact, I believe that if I reconfigured it to its original layout (previous owner merged some apartments for no good reason) and got all rents up to market, it could become a very profitable one.

As a college student I don’t have a lot of money to invest into real estate but I would like to.

I should add we recently acquired the property and the tenants had signed the current lease with terms stating they’re responsible for snow removal with the previous landlord.