You must be attempting wholesaling a bank owned property in which case IMO you're barking up the wrong tree. 

I attempted to do a deal earlier this year and had negotiated that the seller and I split the closing costs. 

On many occasions, we have ended up calling the recorder's office to have them walk us through the process after several failed e-filing attempts.

Attempt to rent it.  

If he says anything else, Say That you had attempted to schedule with another plumber but they were over a week out for this type of repair also, you basically had 2 plumbers on call and the first available came to do the job. 

Replacing the tub entirely is usually a costly proposition and I would do it only if the tub was not functional.I am happy you had decent results, but I wasn't impressed with the DIY kit and made several attempts using different application techniques before giving up. 

Needless to say, this caused the rooftop unit to run continuously in a futile attempt to maintain much less lower the indoor air temperature to its thermostat setting especially on extremely hot days.

I have also had 3 suicide attempts  and one was successful so its important to look at the human side of these deals and not just you the investor and whats in it for you .. we were the largest buyers of courthouse steps in Southern WA for years so been through multi hundreds of these deals..  

Thanks for the tag @Brie Schmidt and @Charlie Clough for the attempted tag !

Dear Tenant,I've attempted to contact you on multiple occasions with no success.