But i can also promise you with a fair amount of certainty that if someone has been uprooted from their life and forced to rely on social services - they are going to be fairly desperate.

Again since investors tend to not fully understand the space they rely heavily on the sponsor.  

This means look at the available listings on the various rental sites (Zillow, hotpads, Realtor, etc.) and determine what market rent is for your unit.- Upon tenant turn over charge market rent for the unit to the new tenants. 

The tax site gives their address, which is different than the property I am interested.

This site is a great wealth of knowledge, just have to sift through it to find what works for you is what I have found.

At a minimum, any property up for tax sale should be run through a site like geotracker  before it goes to sale:https://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/

If you are trying to buy HUD foreclosures there is a site called HUDhomestore.com.

Eric Kyle welcome to the site!

https://www.naahq.org/sites/default/files/naa-documents/education/irop_201702.pdf

If you're lucky you may be able to get through permitting in 8 months, but that is not accounting for the time to takes the architect and engineers to do the drawings and design the building, and the city of Denver has a Site Development Plan submittal as well as a permitting submittal.