After that, I would encourage you to go to your county recorders office / court to request data yourself.

While I realize that if a person really wants to find out who owns the LLC, they ultimately can with some personal effort or potentially the courts, I didn’t want people to be able to easily look up that information online (ie a simple Google search).

@Rion Redinger Hi Rion, I don't show a unit until I have a completed application including a pay stub documenting employment and income, a copy of the applicant Driver's License and I will have run public record court searches for all munis and counties listed on the application.

If they settled out of court, why didn't insurance pay everything? 

Located in the historic 4th Ward neighborhood of Charlotte, this townhouse at North Poplar Street is part of the desirable Hackberry Court.

Located in the historic Fourth Ward neighborhood of Charlotte, this townhouse at North Poplar Street is part of the desirable Hackberry Court development, built in 1995.

If I was in on this by myself, I would have kept up the fight and if it came down to going to court with them, I would have stood up for myself.

This will allow for you to pursue legal action "eviction" if ever needed for non payment or negligence as a tenant. if you rent out the basement separately but it is not a legal unit, the court will not allow you to pursue an eviction.

Also, since you never gave the keys for possession, highly unlikely a judge will even allow you to deduct per diem rent from the SD.After losing a couple of court cases on scenarios similar to yours, we huddled with our attorneys, who recommended charging a Holding Fee.We have a Holding Fee Agreement we require prospects to sign to hold a property until they later sign a lease.

You can learn a lot about the court systems very quickly!