As I mentioned, I want to get out of the corporate world and would ideally like to be able to do REI full-time using it both for income and long term financial security/investment.  

Technically I am paid in full until the end of this month.

You're not going to maximize your potential unless you have a plan.I'm only a part time investor today, but recently decided to start building a strategy to become a full time investor to allow me to leave my day job- which is my primary source of income today. 

Agent also stated that he has a full inspection that was done 2 months ago.

However some of that could be tied to other trends during that time.BTW east coast is expected to have full power by the weekend according to FPL. 

I bought this property at 23 years-old working as a full-time financial analyst in Santa Monica.

We are buying two full rehab homes for <$25k in total - our strategy is going to be to fund the rehab with a hard money loan, build equity once the rehab is complete and then refinance the homes to get out of the hard money loans. 

Public data sources or paid lists? 

My goals in real estate are to achieve financial freedom for me to be able to "retire," then just be able to do it full time.

The down side for you is that he likely wants full retail price for them.