If you're not an agent, the license holder disclosure won't apply.With all this said, and certainly at the expense of sounding condescending (not my intent), you're clearly new to investing and you should definitely seek to partner with an investor who understands contracts, title issues, surveys, etc.

Long story short, he offered to fund EVERYTHING on future rehabs...acquisition, titles, surveys, labor, materials, marketing fees, the whole nine.  

Should I get a survey?

Soft costs are survey to subdivide the land, and layout the site. 

Chris, the thirty day notice of ending the month to month is pretty standard, but you could give the tenants a chance to apply (your application) and if approved, use a lease (your terms) and explain you did survey the market and found them 200-300 hundred under...

I'm letting it go if the survey shows that setbacks are adequate for the house. 

The problem is that there is a flood zone along this creek and it only impacts 5 or 6 houses, so none of my comps are in the zone.Of course, I would get an elevation survey to see if the structure was actually in the zone, but I am pretty certain it is.

I did find sandbags locally and a friend and I did some surveying and figured out how to keep the water moving and not running into the basement.

Some areas, typically more rural areas, will use a "meets and bounds" survey that says "starting at the SW corner of the NW quarter section of section 14, township 3, range 5, north 100', then north 93 degrees west 300', blah de blah".

There are surveys published fairly frequently that give actual returns.