The leak is somewhere in the house.4) Take a 5 gallon bucket and fill it up. 

ahhhh......who removed my 'terd bucket' remark???

Rather than throw all Turnkey companies in the same bucket of swamp water, you should give some good advice...how about this...Ariella, you're really going to need an excellent team on the ground working with you on a daily/weekly basis to setup you property and manage it over the long term.

That's a drop in a bucket for what you will save and make investing correctly.Schedule as many meetings with local investors and other professionals as possible and go during the time where you can attend a REIA and start putting a potential team together.

So it is in a lower price bucket now than it was.

How much of the closing cost bucket are third party title company fees?

If you have been active in this market for the past 3 or 4 years you can see this is a drop in the bucket.

They were optimistic that they only had to dig out a few buckets of soil which would make the cost significantly less than $9k.

Just buy term in an amount needed to replace YOUR income if you kick the bucket.  

If you can vertically trim the whole thing from your side at the property line (tree company with a bucket truck)I'd do it.