While you can hire an independent property manager you are going to want to make sure that whomever you hire has the team, resources and most of all the experience and knowledge to operate your assets.There is a major, major difference between a legitimate property manager and a true property management professional that comes with industry and market knowledge.

The deed in one's name equals ownership of the property....assuming a legitimate transfer, and not complications/issues with a Quit Claim Deed.

So, any intelligent person would be pretty flawed to have a legitimate concern for living in a building where someone from Ebola has died (and let's just give it like a 3-week window period after someone in this building was infected to be appropriately cautious of contamination with neighbors).

What licenses do I need as the owner to make sure that everything is legitimate?  

You have a legitimate contract until the 16th. 

You will find that maybe 5% of them will be legitimate.

A good accountant will also review the HUD 1 for closing costs that can be legitimately written off currently as opposed to those costs that must be rolled up into the purchase price.

He seemed to have a legitimate profile on BP, as well as FB and Twitter along with his websites.If you guys hear any more info, please keep me in the loop.

As long as you buy it at a legitimate price and sell it at a legitimate price, you should be ok unless your buyers are using a lender that insists on seasoning no matter what (FHA?)

I've never heard a legitimate businessman accuse someone of "trying to bust my balls" when they are asked questions.