They should give you the best inspectors and attend the inspection if you can't be there.#3  You may want them to go do a quick visual inspection of the house before you make your offer....they may be able to keep you out of trouble before you even get started.#4 They can provide you comps for both the purchase and rents, and perhaps verify rents for you of current tenants.#5  They may be able to provide location expertise and inside knowledge of the area for you....the good, the bad, the ugly.   

In retrospect, I should have personally gone the home inspection route...

We went under contract for 25 units total, but after inspection, dropped 9 that had severe structural issues we were not willing to take on.

As I’m sure you now know, you should have released the money in draws After you had phases of the rehab inspected, so you knew your money was being used to improve the asset you had as collateral.

What are your options - you can go considerably up in price as a BRRR and waive inspections but if your appraisal comes back requiring repairs, you are DOA and you will be in competition with those who can close in 2 weeks cash and waive inspections if needed to get the property. 

However, the multi-family properties I have been viewing and the one I am trying to purchase would not pass an FHA inspection and out of necessity, switching to using a conventional loan.

If you can bring an inspector to showings (so you could potential waiver the inspection contingency), that could make your offers stronger too...

Im currently in the option period(inspection is today).

The promised scope of work can then be verified by an inspection. 

If it’s a buy and hold, and you do proper due diligence before you buy like getting an inspection, I don’t see it being risky.