Although, the company I am researching has a good reputation and appears very supportive.

Your risk will typically be your earnest money and your reputation if you start signing contracts you fail to sell or perform on yourself.

The Novak brothers are well known in this area and have a good reputation.

Audit Protection: Reputable DIY software adheres to IRS guidelines, providing assurance against audits.

Also, your reputation will take a hit with the listing broker if you need to back out.Best approach is to "raise" money first.

As mentioned above, there's also the discount that reputable GC's get with subs because of volume.  

In that case I only pay for the title insurance covering the lender.I've dealt with many situations where the builder failed to pay suppliers and subcontractors leaving the buyer with liens on the property, sometimes in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

To address this maintenance issue, I sent out a reputed garage door company to look at it. 

If you find a PM that is an agent they have 2 reputations on the line.

I recently graduated from Lehigh University and since graduation I have been working as a Logistics analyst for an industrial construction materials supplier in Long Island City.