Also, I don’t believe that their management has any direct equity (correct me if I’m wrong).

you are correct!

Investor buys in  market with the correct fundamentals and experiences a sudden and significant appreciation bump. 

You're correct on that.

Is this process pretty self explanatory if I just follow the correct steps? 

Many attorneys charge a consultation fee that will be credited to my bill if I continue to work with them but I don’t want to pay for various consultation fees unless I know for sure that I have contacted the correct attorney.

While that is probably true, it would also wash out the grocery store where his food comes from and the neighborhood would look like 

Is that correct?

I made myself take QB classes and struggled for years, my CPA said what I am doing is about 80% correct and it was a ton of work to clean up the files. 80% is not acceptable for me when it comes to IRS stuff.

Sometimes the contractor will come in and tell you a low bid, but then once they open things up tell you you need to spend more to get it corrected because that was not in the bid.