Keep in mind you will turn this list every few months.If you're main focus is fielding the requests to minimize your involvement there are services that can handle that for far less. 

Some key indicators to use:- purchase price- rehab costs- ARV- market rent- vacancy rate (usually 5% of gross rent)- property management fee- maintenance - mortgage payment if using debt, sounds like your not.

If the entire property needs a thorough cleaning or something in the middle I'll indicate so. 

As a brand new investor, you want to minimize your risk as much as possible on your first buy and what you are looking at depends on your strategy.

An offer, unless it is signed by the other party is meaningless other than it indicates that you're interested in the property enough to make one.I know it can be frustrating to do some legwork on a property and have it sell while that's taking place, but you pulled building permits on it?

Im starting out and would like to keep my costs to a minimal so I can save $ for the actual investments.

Only one unit will be rented, house hacked, and the water cost for a HE washer is minimal.

If you haven't indicated anywhere on the paperwork that this is your primary residence, don't. 

As mentioned above, during due diligence, you'll walk every unit and verify what all the documents indicate...

@Chris VanAckeren It is very difficult to pick bottoms and tops , As a Loan Officer with rates this low I think a prudent choice would be lock the rate . no one has a crystal ball and can predict rates but with the recent major fall off in 10 year treasury which is an indicator for 15 & 30 year mortgages , Today they started edging back up today.