If its a good deal and you have to fight for it, you can give them a higher offer to get into contract after you are in the contract and you got the inspection report use it to negotiate the price down. 

What frustrates me in past deals they've had is the realtor never seems to fight for them and they buy into the bs their selling - the realtor doesnt care if the price drops another 10k or 20k as in the grand scheme the price reduction has a minimal effect on their commission.Any good realtors, help me help you get this listing so they can fire their present agent.  

Kudos to the more experienced folks above for putting the numbers together and reminding us all about those pesky maintenance costs.

If you try and kick them out immediately then they may fight and you don't want a problem on your hands with a new property.

Other attorneys read that and supposedly that would stop them from trying to fight that. 

@David Jiang,Do you want to do a rehab or "fight city hall"?

I'm looking to get into a flip, flip, hold style of business but lack knowledge of the area, and knowledge on whether to jump right into a flip with little capitol and fight to get financing or wholesale to build a revenue stream for down payments to make financing easier or am I completely off base?

I did everything I can to fight it.

By leaving him off the lease, you'll allow yourself an 'out' if some day they get to fighting or there is an issue, you can use the reasoning that he is a guest for him to leave, and if he doesn't move you can evict both on the grounds that your tenant has violated the provision in the lease that guests are only allow to stay x # of days.And beyond putting him in as a tenant w/ full rights and responsibilities, I wouldn't have his name on the lease for that reason.

If you don't like the regulations, and you want to stay in this business (which is always a choice,) you can try fighting city hall (or the state, feds, EPA, or whatever organization is causing you grief.)