If you decide to do the small claims court to recoup your money, you’ll need it.

There have been many discussion about this here, but here are a couple...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/121910-i-declare-no-landlords-should-pay-for-their-tenants-waterhttps://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/18485-why-do-landlords-pay-for-the-tenants-water-Or just do a search for "RUBS" or "RUBS Water"   Ive been NOT Paying for Tenants' water for over 15 years, since day 1, and have never once regretted it for a moment.Good Luck

Article hereThe short version is that no evictions may be brought for non payment of rent against anyone who declares that they have been financially impacted by the Coronavirus until at least May 1st.I have property in NYC and Long Island, and I was talking to my lawyer a few months ago about needing to evict a problem tenant. 

This keeps the ball in your court

And you will probably have to have some kind of minimum payment in there in order to have it stand up in court; it's unlikely a court is going to let you walk off with a 200k house for 6 grand if the guy kicks off in 5 months. 

Since the courts are all backed up right now his attorney said that if he has a letter from me stating eviction will be filed by the 20th he can get an emergency court hearing. 

I included a link to Fulton County court.  

You'll have guys gambling on the side court and people possibly getting shot over a game or down😳.

I don't think that a federal bankruptcy court would allow a real estate broker to include tenants deposits in his bankruptcy so technically he would still owe them if he is holding them for the tenant.  

If the market continues to improve around here then you'll do well either renovating it in the future to flip or renting it out.For the transfer if this is the only asset his LLC has you can just have him transfer ownership of the LLC to you which would avoid a transfer being recorded in the clerk of courts office so the bank won't see a transfer of onwership and the assessor won't see it either (just meaning they won't reassess the property and bring your tax base up).