Hey Tevin, a lot of people included search criteria such as equity, mortgage type, last sale of the home, absentee owners, and age of owner.

So far, I've started working with a real estate agent I think is great, and also believe I've identified a property manager that I think is a good fit for me.The agent has been bringing me deals that seem to fit my parameters.

If so, and the title commitment identifies those encroachments as specific exceptions on the title commitment, you would say "Not acceptable. 

If they were that bad you should have identified the issues while you were inspecting the property.  

I found BiggerPockets while at work searching for a podcast to take my mind off of having to come into an office, sit in front of a CPU screen, and process account after account after account.

Just search for them and they’ll have your answers :)

The sale price of the apartment that I am searching for is about $90,000.

I’ll keep on the search.

The tenant has been civil so far (despite giving me no heads up) and is allegedly actively searching for a new apartment.

You can find hundred of them by doing searches on BP by state.