I personally don't like fireplaces and if a property had one, I would say immediately when showing the house that the fireplace 'wasn't functional'.

Less important initially, but also good to get insurance loss runs on a building this old (at 50 years) along with identifying functional obsolescence items (e.g. no central air). $200 (even $500) is a giveaway that you didn't get a quote and do your homework. 

Check local county circuit court records for any potential lawsuits against them. 

If I did I may want to keep those ones completely separate from the other stuff regardless of how well tracked and "classed" my QB file is.From a legal standpoint, your attorney may make a case for breaking out each property and function into its own LLC.

So it is possible that the county and the city both sell the same property and the courts have to decide which have the higher claim if indeed two different people buy the liens.

How do you file with the court for non-payment of rent then? 

If it's a judicial foreclosure, it's basically the same process only through the courts.

The courts have ruled that text is not proof of delivery and when used in court, you are required to surrender your phone to the court with other filings.  

But, from what I've heard is Promissory notes mean almost nothing in court.  

Having them put their terminate request in writing (email is fine but no text as it is not acceptable in courts) stating the reason for the termination and that their last day will be February 28th by 5:00 p.m.  2.