I simply need real-world experience.

The option agreement is what gives one the option to buy the home without being obligated to purchasing it3- more involved process than simply signing a lease or a purchase agreementIf your main objective is to prevent breaking a lease, finding a property with "month to month" leasing may be your best bet. 

If your tenant decides that he/she do not want to pay, even if they werent impacted by covid, they wont - they will simply deal with the consequences later (if there will be any).

As another stated above, if you actually have a real deal, then go to another local experienced flipper who can likely bring in their onw hard money or cash and simply take a small portion of the profits for yourself so you gain experience working side by side with someone with the knowledge to get it done for a nice profit.

It is still the #1 best, cheapest, most effective strategy to simply negotiate and work with the tenants on a human level.

Wholesaling is simply the act of getting paid for deals that you don't want to keep   In your quest to find a good flip, you will 100% find deals that arent right for you.

My husband is a physician and he has been listening to Bigger Pockets all along and wanting to get into real estate investing, but he and I both have simply not had the time to dig in until now.

@Thomas WillinghamI would stat renovating vacant units and then simply non-renew trouble tenants and offer good tenants upgraded units if they are interested. 

If you're simply looking to make your money/networth work as hard as possible for you, it'd be a good time to sell and deploy the earnings elsewhere. 

@Stephen Brown @Joe Villeneuve @Greg Scott Sorry guys.. appreciate the replies, the reason my original post was numberless is simply because I didn't have my journal with me.