I like responses above but I'd try to eliminate that debt regardless of your next move. 

This will eliminate a lot of headaches for you at the closing table when these issues will come up.  

these are public records - our records - and are available to us for free, or a nominal production fee.GIS records are usually free as well, eliminating the need for geocoding and including not only parcel boundaries, but a long list of parcel and building attributes, such as grade and condition, sq footage, yr of const, etc. very sweet, and open source GIS software aptly handles the task. re scrapes - you can easily scrape any site that is humanly accessible, even if robots.txt and other means try to keep you out - look at scrapy, beautiful soup etc along with some vpn proxy farms. or you can hire this out. and why scrape when the county will email you an 80mb csv?

and it will require multiple trips and could take months or longer to eliminate this issue.

Screening can sometimes eliminate any bad or good feelings that we have about tenants.

I typically try to limit emotions (you can rarely eliminate buyer/seller emotions 100%) and have logic prevail at every opportunity.  

Then you will eliminate certain parts of the country.

That way it’s done by a professional and this seems to be an integral part to our success in this flip (eliminating the smoke smell), even if it costs an extra $2,000 we have room in the budget and I don’t want to take the risk of destroying some drywall by overusing.What do you think?

Sounds good but you will eliminate about 70% of the renters out there.  

Because you’ve started a proven track record using this method, start raising capital from others to eliminate access to your own capital as a bottleneck to your growth.So you can go after larger deals.