I've done this before and made it a small daily penalty/bonus amount. 

That process has direct lender involvement.Where the challenge lies, is when unsophisticated "investors" with no experience, no money and no reserves use creative financing (often called wrap, subto, lease option, seller financing, land contract) to purchase properties and along the way there is a "hiccup".

I am also interested in looking to buy small active property management business with few contracts already in place.

And a percentage of the revenue gets auto-directed to the CapEx subaccount.

He is a realtor that I previously purchased a small portfolio from and therefore had a good professional relationship.

Maryland’s DLLR site you mentioned is definitely a step in the right direction.

Given they are going to damage the walls while moving anyway it eliminates their need to touch up the halls and I can usually schedule to have one painter knock out multiple units in a day but even if its a one off sale, it comes across as good service for a small amount of money.In a storage area within the house or garage I will leave an unopened box of each tile, and flooring used in the house along with unopened 1 gallon buckets of the wall and semi gloss paints and one of each door hardware (kitchen and interior doorway.

It sucks for us LLs, because if the tenant is poor, LL won't go to small claims to get award, too, and then there's eventually no record.

Use that as a small down payment to siblings.

I don't like AI descriptions (sorry @Andrew Steffens).They look and sound completely like it was written by a bot, which it was.I like to write my own copy for listings and I respond directly to all guests, inquiries and issues.