If that is someone's intention, to buy cheap, fix cheap and upkeep cheap, yet collect that rent and do their best to not stick anything back into the property, word gets around and the inspector's office can easily make life very uncomfortable.

Flip the problem, not the house.Send a really strong letter to your agent with the intention that the letter is to be forwarded to seller. 

Yep, meaning the new buyer owner is responsible for those tasks.As a seller, I like RE contracts because if they default, I only have to give them 90 days to cure through a Notice of Intent to Forfeit.  

My questions is this...Since I do not currently own, is it wise to purchase a property as an owner occupied property with the intentions of flipping it? 

Oh, I also have the task of convincing my wife.....she, like the majority of Americans lives her life based on FEAR and is not very excited about my intentions to enter the RE market:)Thoughts?

It's frustrating, because I really would like more, but there's no way I'd buy with the intent of using as a VR and then get shut down a week into it by an angry neighbor! 

Two years later in 2010 I became a Realtor with the intent to help other investors like myself achieve financial freedom through real estate investing.

That's awkward if you haven't been up-front with the homeowners.When I intend to wholesale, I explain that I am 100% on the hook but that my intent is to fund the purchase via one of our partner companies, hence the need to assign the deal prior to closing.  

@Steve BabiakThe house was built in 2003, so it is practically new construction for all intents and purposes compared to my other homes that I have rehabbed.

Perhaps with the intention of only ever selling the units individually.