If you acquiesce and allow them to violate cleanliness terms in the lease, you will be seen by any judge as being complicit with their uncleanliness. 

And the Judge will decide which party didn't try so hard and award a Judgment accordingly.I like to make my life simple. 

2) Should I declare income that I receive from renting a bedroom on my taxes to help elevate my income levels?

After everybody and their bother is notified, then it must go to the court and the judge has to be petitioned and shown that all parties have been notified, hence the name Judicial sale. 

I have a property under contract  to be sold with code violations that's in the courts and the Judge is preventing me from selling the property.

If they don’t show, then they’re out, I.e. the judge will find in your favor.

I can see a judge asking 2-3-5 simple questions in a courtroom and the answers most people would give are not in their favor. 

Ive only seen the judge in all that time ask to see a lease once.

.,.The more bidders present at the court confirmation hearing (probate auction) the more benefit to the estate.But when you bid in court there's no contingencies and your due diligence is required.And if you don't close escrow on the subject property that you won at auction your going to lose your 10% deposit.Secret bidding in front of the judge where the starting bid is already set?

type questions, ultimately, are whatever a judge in a court of law decides the answers are, if it were to get to that point.