Just bought a 2000 accord v6... The check eng (egr valve) and srs light came on. Steering seems stiff. I do most of my own repairs and would like any sort of advice

Clean the egr port, throttle body, intake manifold/plenum and the egr valve itself. You might need to buy the egr kit which makes you drill into the port to make it wider. Don't drill through it though. There was a service bulletin about this a while back. Hard steering could be the power steering fluid or other bad things. I would start with that.