However, as first-time and inexperienced homebuyers, we overlooked critical issues during the initial inspection.

Also, a 3-month try before you lease may be the issue, tenants are using it as an MTR, it gives them far too much wiggle room, and that short-term turnover can start hitting you in the pockets pretty hard...With that said some incentives you can offer are the first and last months rent-free for a 12-month lease.

As others have mentioned, if you can commit to using the property solely as an investment and won't occupy it yourself at any point in time, DSCR will allow you get around the DTI/employment/income issues.

My issue that I’m having trouble getting over is that down payment money is currently yielding 5.5% in an HYSA with no risk or stress.

We are all human and make mistakes.Yes, you will have the same issues when you go to sell it.Good Investing...

If you discover foundation or structural issues these can also be expensive.I would not use a per square foot figure like, $50.00 or $75.00 per square multiplied by the number of sq. feet.

That's a nonconforming property, where you have fewer lenders that will bite on it so you are limited there but let's assume that's not an issue. 

If you sell now its a 15-25k loss unless you do FSBO, then the loss is smaller.If you don't sell you may be negative around 4-6k each year depending on the capex timeline/maintenance issues.

From June until November I haven't received one payment, my court date was set on the Monday of Thanksgiving which the clerk couldn't give issue the court order document because she was swarmed with all the cases that week, the following week I received the court order and the writ.

Often the borrower/buyer will pay for a title insurance policy to insure against title issues or flaws, but it's usually a rider to a standard title insurance policy the seller typically pays for.