Most HML have an attorney fee and maybe a processing fee or something of that nature due at closing. 

Could I use it as storage or something of that nature to get around it being a commercial unit?

Being that I plan to use a property manager, how do I keep myself involved in the process adequately without stepping on toes?

The renovations ran over more than than expected as the nature of flipping houses tends to be, but not by much.

He has proof of adequate savings and is paying 6 months up front.

Do I rely on someone else to do the rehab (against my nature as I just completely gutted and rehabbed our personal residence from top to bottom).

In those years, I had tenants doing an adequate job, to ones where they don't get to mow till it's over 6 to 8 inches long and neighbors complain and threaten to call the town.I found tenants who take their mowing seriously are blue collar family types.

The part that calms me down thinks that this could all be organic growth due to all of the positive market forces going on right now and that prices will continue to go higher naturally.

Your reputation isn't something that people can take from you in a divorce and betrayal.Over the last year I have learned a ton about empathy, relationships, spirituality, mindfulness, and things of this nature. 

But as a buyer... makes no sense to ask the LA to be your agent too...John McNellis essentially says it's not supposed to matter (according to their code of ethics), but human nature is human nature.