(Your property may need additional steps... so please don't take this a literal "how-to".)Keep in-mind that even if there are no cracks you need to make sure the surface is very smooth and clean before laying down vinyl.  

I do not wish to keep the tenants in place because I have already learned from the seller that they don't pay on time and when I viewed the house it was clear that they were not clean folks.

Any good ideas as far as how to generate, also there are quite a few houses i see in my surrounding neighborhood that have a for sale sign in the yard being sold by a real estate company, do they hold any value to me, is there a way to make money off of houses like that.

Long term goals are the keep repeating the same process till i generate $5000 of positive case flow (after all expenses) from all my properties in 3 years time and buy a nice home for me and my family to retire into.Want to take help from all the community member to see if my goal is realistic and what are the dos and dont that i should follow to achieve it in the shortest time possible.

2) Does the brokerage generate leads that are passed onto the agents?

You can then pursue the one that intrigued you the most.The key, you must like real estate, not just the money generated from it.

And if he does not clean up, give him a 30 notice to vacate.

Work to clean up credit if needed and then pay down the amounts on the highest cards.

IF I dont reno them now when will I get my bucket list cleaned up? 

If you're in a slower market, I've seen anywhere from $1,000 to an extra 1% generate interest.