No domestic disputes or anything and should be clean and easy.

You have all the same responsibilities as someone owning / operating a hotel: cleaning, laundry, groceries / supplies and all the other issues that landlords and property managers don't deal with.

So my parents are separated in age by 14 years and my father's health is declining a little more rapidly than expected. 

I regularly receive text, emails and paper mail, even people knocking on my door from my "utility company" and it's a dead ringer for their letterhead sometimes even, but fake nonetheless.And to be clear is it for sewer lateral (waste line) replacement or the incoming service line of clean water to your rental?

Called in a partner plumber that tried with the same clean out and failed to get it cleared. 

Personally, I like to watch inventory over the 200k mark because I think it's a very healthy way to track the market.

Top loading washers are more reliable and they clean better, but use more water.

Condo sales throughout the island have also remained healthy. 

Clean credit history with minimum 680 credit score4.

Now that is an EXTREME circumstance and he got such a good deal on the property that he'll still make money when it's all said and done but if the bank or a HML gets burned by that once I promise they won't be lending on occupied properties again.As far as due-diligence goes the bank will need to deliver a clean and marketable title to you.