We plan to either hold as a rental or sell to buy a primary + investment property.Questions:1) Would I need to have the title in my personal name so that I can refinance it based on our household W-2s and credit history?

We are required to install combo Smoke/CO & hard wire them all, regardless of being an all electric household or not, any fire will create CO as O2 is depleted. 

Does rentprep and zillow charge their fees per applicant or is that fee for the entire household?

When you see those claims of "37.5% of households have not made their housing payment for August" take it with a grain of salt.

Although growth of household spending has picked up from earlier in the year, growth of business fixed investment has been soft.

@Sam R.No guns in my household. 

Why the impact is great is because these company literally hiring hundred of thousand of people that rise middle income household family to be in the range of 300-400k making purchase of  one or two mil seems like easy.

What I've seen is there are 3 general tiers of services provided, at least in my market:10 - 15% - Online services only such as Evolve (marketing, listing management, dynamic pricing, calendar mgmt, etc), you may need to source the cleaners, keep household items stocked, and you might need to be the point of contact for the guest during their stay if any maintenance issues come up. 

You can go to the big blue discount center and in the spa and swimming pool section pick up a container of chlorine crystals.

Home Defense kills just about every household bug.