@David FergusonVirginia is cheap and easy to setup a LLC.

As long as you are buying and selling the deal on the same day, with the same title company, transactional funding can be extremely cheap.

Not necessary, but easy/cheap enough to do and helps me think of the business as more separate.

If I had not extracted cash from them, I would put their cash flow up against every cheap OOS market.  

There are plenty of posts on this forum where high income W2 earners regret buying cheap cash flowing properties.

The "old dogs" there keep their mouths shut unless it is to ask for money.My advice is to run from that program, and invest that money is online education, on well known resources such as the Kent Clothier reww system, this Biggerpockets forum, the cheap and inexpensive marketing programs from John Cochran, Chris Prefontaine or many others that will help you to get started without having to spend tens of thousands of dollars on mentoring of people as little genuine as the Groves.In summary, Phil Grove's program will not work for 95% of the people that enroll on it, and out of the other 5%, it will mostly help those that end up in Phil's team.

The thought of paying them to leave makes me ill but the $2500 spent on doing so was a cheap date considering the other options. 

I’m not just being cheap, lol. 

They are cheap, good networking, and they will tell you who the good "investor" contractors are, those that don't charge retail for repairs because they work exclusively with investor properties.

He's able to charge a good bit of money per unit since it's a unique experience, and they should be relatively cheap to build once you have the land.