I am located in New Jersey so it would be great to chat with other investors / actors in the market and get some perspective on potential team members, neighborhoods, prices, etc.

Our group established our business under Act 20, the export services act, and Act 22, the Individual Investors Act or Investors Relocation Act as it is sometimes referred to.  

As much as I hated Dodd Frank at first, I must admit that it got a lot of bad actors out of the lending business, but Private Lending to Entities (LLCs, S-Corps, etc) aren't really heavily regulated like residential lending is.

It's one of the reasons after all these years I've never had an eviction, or a tenant-initiated malicious destruction, etc.

Fair Housing Act?

I could see it there was a malicious intent or is the agent was grossly negligent, but I wanted to see if is a good idea or over kill to implement a holds harmless agreement. 

Misguided or malicious collections efforts could haunt you which includes proper borrower communications in all forms, whether born by you or the previous note holder.In relation to the passage from the book.

It's relatively simple and would give you substantially more credibility.There's nothing wrong with being a consultant, but I've seen countless unlicensed Real Estate "consultants" engage in actions that require a license - not intentionally or maliciously, moreso by ignorance. 

In Florida, the landlord is not allowed to do malicious things like remove doors, turn off utilities, etc.  

Bad actors make it into the units.