You have a lot of people here on BP who have been in the biz for decades and also know a lot of other landlords.

For contact management like that its awesome to search for specific types of people and locations or just data like "how long does it take to foreclose in texas".We have some other use cases as well that we use to track not only ours but competitors results online and learning what does and does not work for different aspects of the business.

Do people require it before signing the lease?

This is another reason why I see 1M posts on hear about people wanting to transfer properties to their LLC because some guru they paid $5k told them too.

I definitely want to scale but with people I like.

Though, if your client base is nice retired people, it probably won't matter.  

Questions Regarding Property Registration Restrictions in a Joint Venture Model:Are there any restrictions when attempting to change the property registration with the county (through the title company) if the property has an active Hard Money Loan or DSCR Loan?

I would be happy to introduce you to people who are actively doing this. 

They will substitute in their own sense of fairness knowing people are unlikely to appeal such a small issue.

Here in TN brokerages regularly hold EM deposits; I have a dedicated account for such deposits myself, by law, even though I don't actively broker RE but just maintain my brokerage for the PM side of things.