Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anxiety attack, or performing other duties.

My question should I try to pull cash out at refi or just refi and create more cash flow since my interest will be much lower.

I think his 12% may be referencing his multi-family that he owns and operates, unless he's not able to pull out all his funding.

How do I know things like the cost of water and sewer, loan points, ARV (without an agent to pull comps), Capital Expenditures, or any other number of items without fully engaging the seller? 

A trust-deed with a marginal borrower can also be a problem, and the foreclosure solution is more time consuming and costly.

Annual property taxes - I pulled off of the listing. $1,687 for county and $1,312 for city for a combined $2,999/year, amortized at $249.92 a month.

Go to your lease and let this guide you to a solution.

However it was fully rented pulling in $1400 rent with long term tenants. 

Hey Brad,You may not even need to pull permits if you are doing a light or cosmetic rehab.  

Local banking relationship may be able to help you with creative solutions.