In addition, Fed officials gave no indication that they intend to attempt to halt the recent rise in yields.

Each of these indicate a different type of problem in your marketing...

If the rehab is real light, as an investor I don't see any problem of indicating what to expect because of your experience in that field, but if it's going to require a lot of extensive work, I would just phone the contractor or professional of that given field who will do the work.

I am not intending to indicate that an RE investor cannot succeed in Columbus (I believe they can). 

Per inspection report one of the items: "sagging present throughout interior ceiling, cracking around most window and door frames, floors very uneven / unlevel indicative a structural movement further evaluation recommended."

I get the sense the sellers would take a low ball offer if I agreed to take on the tenant (indications are that he pays but who knows), looking for any expert feedback anyone may have on this situation.

Their initial response was sorry no we don't lend on US properties, and then after some digging and approaching them again with webpages that indicate they do, they came back and said you'll need to talk to our US locations about that - definitely going to pursue it, but just seems weird they wouldn't be wanting to promote their financial services. 

Hey @Abdul Azeez, if you want to give me the addresses of your properties I can give you an indication of value! 

Tax records indicate its a legal 2 unit property.

Reading those, investors would most likely assume both negatives and positives that would not be indicative of a market as a whole.