By evicting for failure to vacate, you now make this a contractual issue.

Not looking to hand off my taxes but rather a consultation to review this piece when the time comes.  

I reviewed this with my cpa on an asset and was told basically when we do sell it and say we took $100k depreciation we would pay taxes on that money we took as depreciation.

It seems that IRS liens can be negotiated down but how would one do this?

I read a bunch of the guidance online but I can't tell exactly how the property is classified once this has been done.

I do have a handful of clients that have ended up using multiple CPAs just due to who their partners were on different deals, and even in those cases they almost always end up consolidating to a single CPA - taxes are enough of a headache without dealing with 3 different professionals who each only have a slice of the whole picture.If you are going to regularly be investing across the country, it doesn't hurt to work with a firm that has State and Local Tax (often referred to as "SALT") internal resources, though typically this does come from larger firms with larger fees. 

The expenses of the mortgage, property taxes & insurance and HOA (if applicable would have to be at or below the number- in this example, $8,000).

I am curious to learn more about this.

Would this turn any investors away?  

This will be an out of state investment for myself.