Usually people get in trouble (and come her on BP to get feedback) trying to use wacky ideas of how to circumvent the OO period to just buy property cheaper.It doesn't sound like that is your intent, but unfortunately others doing that gives the process a bad name and are the reason there are mortgage fraud investigations in the first place.

We begin advertising as soon as we received notice from the current tenants (on an annual lease, the notice period is 90-days, for long-term tenants it is 60-days).

This will sort out how efficient they are and how fast the title company is.

Period.

I changed drastically (for good) in so many ways in a short period of time, let say in less than 10 months.

You will rapidly grow in your 20s, and so will your salary, but if you learn to live efficiently then it can be a great boon to your investing.

I'm still within the 3 day refund period!

After a period of 1 year you can sell the property if you so choose and move out.

It was brought to my attention during a vacancy period, so I just looked into it and it went well from there.

The listing agent has a legal obligation to get the seller the highest price, period.