How do I research the company?  

Big players like Ford, GM, and even tech companies are betting on Detroit.

Do they currently have a multifamily investing company that is successful.2.

We've always hired a tax protest company and have done so in three different states.

In Columbus, you can still find the 1% rule and there's amazing appreciation potential due to how much population growth, job growth, and companies moving/developing there (recently Anduril just announced another 4,000 jobs coming to Columbus Ohio on top of Intel, Google, Amazon, FB, Nationwide, Ohio State University, etc.).

If you are new and don't have a clue, then I would certainly recommend them or some company that can guide you through things until you have an understanding. 

In my case, I have residential rentals in one LLC, commercial properties in another, self-storage in a third, and my real estate company operates in a fourth.

Curious if they named that company as they were the servicing company - so they were the ones who would be handling payoffs.... 

Since the previous owner is getting most of the proceeds does the closing attorney issue him a 1099S and then issue my company one for a much lower amount?

Their return is better than most note companies.