What i'm told is that the previous owner is old and was tired of this place and trying to evict.

The previous 'tired' landlord had already bought & had installed a lot of rehab items, like the HVAC & water heater, laminate floors, vinyl siding.

.$2,000 to make Ready Home (750 sq foot, 1 story home) ________________________________$95.00 - Landscaping / Clean Out Flowerbeds$150 - Exterior Painting$150 - Landscaping / Tree Shrubs$250 - Haul Off (Limbs, Tires, Furniture)$225 - Full House Cleaning (One Story)$495 - Wall and ceiling repairs/Paint Touch up the house from nail holes and scuff marks Seal the joints in the bathroom Walls, trim, and doors touch up Seal above the kitchen cabinetsThis all seems excessively high to me... isnt this $15/hour work with a handyman?

And my contract with them expires in a week.To make a long story short, there were other issues that almost scuttled the deal, so the broker finally said, OK, we'll do it for $180K then, I'm so tired of this, so I be done with it without making anything.

I was going to chalk it up to "whatever" because i'm tired of dealing w/ crap and this is almost over... but now i see the deposit could potentially be owed by me since i bought the tenant. basically.. there is not a lease agreement.

I am using a credit repair company right now and my credit score went up from 580 to 620, which I was very happy about, but then I had to buy new tires and opened a new credit card with the available balance of 900 and had to use all of it.

Long story short, I've got a tired landlord that is overwhelmed and exhausted by the eviction process and being able to take the property off his hands mid-eviction could be valuable to him. 

Sounds like they are just tire kickers. 

Ask them if they're tired of taking 3 trips to get groceries into their front door.  

I started like many others, just with family members that were tired of the their retirement funds being so unpredictable in the stock market.