Kathy is a regular host on BiggerPockets Podcast, On The Market so you may have heard of her.

Still need to clean it with regular household cleaning supplies, keep the dehumidifier running, and try to increase some air flow if possible. 

If you give them a key every time just use a regular lock, no advantage to you to use the smart lock.  

If your intent is to go ahead with the purchase how do you get around the inspection fee...another words do investors as a regular practice PAY an inspector to inspect the property even though its not really yours yet ...and may never be??

This can be hard to manage if you have a larger property with a regular size washer.

Once you become an experience flipper you can also get better terms when it comes to hard money especially when you stick to using your regular lender.

You need to sign a regular purchase and sale agreement with an assignability and marketing clause with you as the buyer.

Now as an agent, I come across situations like this on the regular: buyers and sellers always think they know more than they actually do, and often screw something major up without even realizing it.

I did a double check on my properties (I do this regularly anyway), my discounts remain as I had them previously (I do offer different discounts for length of stay).  

Your challenge is to make your request seem like it’s part of their regular, bureaucratic tasks.