If you have a number of applicants and the rest are clean, that makes your course of action easier.The gold standard would be to search these databases by SSN; unfortunately, most of the states and counties have gotten rid of SSNs in their court records, so you can't search by them anymore.

You'll have to clean up the title before getting title insurance.

They then didn't clean it since April until now.

I guess in my haste to benefit from the income on my current job before I quit I thought it was a good Idea to try to increase my portfolio while still being able to use different financial  solutions.

The side area I can clean up and I think pretty much leave it.  

Build the system, step away, be a service missionary with my wife and kids (e.g. bring clean water systems to third-world villages, disaster relief, etc.)"

Clean unit but original 1980 finishes.

Well, I went back to property today, and it appears the county sheriffs office was there to clean it out last week under a "Writ of Possession" order of evacuation.  

Or you can make a contingent offer based on getting clean title.

Make sure the surface will stay clean and dry for the full curing time.