I am sorry to hear about the challenges you're having with renting out your townhouse in Kennesaw.I agree that it's probably past time to look into either selling (and re-investing in a carefully selected investment property), hiring a new property management company, or pivoting your strategy with the townhome. 

The price is high, and I asked the interviewer if there is any sort of "money back guarantee" and I got a hard no.

They can get you access to conventional lending, and loans insuredunder CMHC (regular, as well as MLI select).

The IRS typically selects returns for audit based on unusual or suspicious patterns, not the sheer length of a return.

They even pitched that I run marketplace adds for my property and refer homeroom (and if a lead goes to another property in the end, I do not get any sort of compensation).

You can always call up the title company beforehand to get an idea if they charge any sort of settlement, recording, doc prep, etc fees.As for the Seller side, the buyer chooses the title company 95% of the time, unless seller just recommends one.

Why select the city first?

I'd put together some sort of monthly agenda and commit to running it.

But granted that is a select few people and maybe not representative of the whole market. 

You will need to research and select a market that fits your goals.