I agree that many transactions shouldn't be done simply because you can.However, out of curiosity, if you had the opportunity to buy a $hit property with golden financing & then immediately sell the $hit property but keep the golden financing & transfer the financing to a great property would you consider it?

Both allege they were his common-law spouse.I am imagining this playing out like a live Jerry Springer episode, with probate court as the stage and legal claims as the punches.

They might can give you some valuable information.

You might check with smaller outfits too like Co/Lab lending, Preferred Mortgage, Aceland Mortgage, and co-ops/credit unions.

The property passed final testing by the county health department.Is this anything I should be concerned about?

Another consideration is that if you do a 1031 exchange back out of CA the state is a "claw-back" state so CA will try to get their capital gains eventually.

I’m an out of state investor.

I checked their reviews which were very low.   

Out of the 22 properties 8 are rented.

I’m in that market, I specialize in this sort of thing, I’m happy to give you my 2 cents.