I'm not aware of any grants to help with down payment / closing costs, except my suggestion to try and get a seller concession to cover closing costs. 

Do you plan on covering the other utilities (lawn, snow, trash, etc.)?

Because it covers all those little nooks and crannies that you and the seller couldn't possibly have thought of.

Looking for suggestions where to do a credit check, this is my first time having to do this. What website is best? Thank you!

Once it's purchased, how will you market, screen applications, and deal with problems like late rent, lease violations, unauthorized pets, etc?

whenever i need help with a house or a building its covered. and every year it gets adjusted depending on how many houses i do. its a win for him because he gets passive income and if he gets a few more investors like me he can really expand his buisness,  and a win for me because i will cut costs and time by bidding jobs out.

Department of Justice (DOJ), covers places of public accommodation.

You should always screen all your tenants regardless if they know someone in the community or not.

2nd piece is the house hack...We think best course of action would be to have an investor friend we know buy the house in cash, once we are done with renovations, we then take out a full mortgage on the house to cover whatever he paid for it and then pay him back with some interest.

Lets say that the numbers were added up before hand with what the loan might look like and the person had a bank account that could cover 6 months of payments of what the bank would probably ask for the loan saved up. would that improve their chances with a low income?