My personally goal is to scale this new company where I can hire 10 people max for admin and take this company public or a multimillionaire dollar if not billion dollar company.

No, if you don't hold a license you can not give property information to the public, can't put any deal together, you're a clerk in the back office, you can say hello to clients and get coffee, but you can't discuss anything to do with real estate.

I didn't see any public replies.

All the title company is doing is accessing public information.

The transaction is exactly like buying a rental property with a tenant and not like a mortgage or deed of trust transaction which are sold as standalong instruments with their secured notes.

Regarding Ice melt, preorder it and store securely (in dry spot) on-site for contractor to save on costs.

Take a secured loan against a vehicle that is paid off.

If I put a piece of say 2X3 over the tiled wall, from one end of the sink to the other end, covering the damaged tiles, secured with perhaps recessed Tapcon screws. 

Make a lower offer subject to a reserve public auction, offer the seller a 10% hybrid (10% of anything you get over what you offered), make full disclosures, get right of possession (so you can clean the house up and show it to prospective buyers), build in an extension in the event you need more time and use banking days for settlement.

While I'm a huge believer in using public records as a lead source (that's what my company does), there are some things that are better sourced at other points in the process.