On the resale, of the flip ....if I decide to rehab and flip it myself , I have full control of how resells it.  

Be diligent, be precise, and work as quickly as your time allows.

With this plan custodian is not required and you can have a checkbook control over your retirement funds.

Not me personally.  17k in draws, so not exactly chump change; but personally can't imagine fronting that kind of money without better control.  

Requirement to provide habitable housing only applies to conditions with the property that the landlord has control over.

We have used Chicago Title and we also like Greater Illinois Title (had a horrible experience with Precision Title and do NOT recommend them).

From an economics standpoint, it is not the wisest way to solve a problem and I say this from personal experience, coming from a country that took that approach to the extreme - the more government restrictions you have the more problems starts coming out from other ends, you start having shortages, then you have to control pricing from significant increases, and so on and so forth and you end up with so many restrictions you might as well just not do anything at all.  

Was the property rent controlled?

Townhomes usually are defined by controlling the land underneath the property.  

It makes alot of sense and  I will work on staying in control and giving them what they want.