Only two things matter:  the lease and your state law on termination of lease without notice. 

There are a lot of websites that offer the course online, or if you have a college near you, they also typically offer a class that satisfies the pre-licensing requirement.

Do you have the case online? 

Look for your states offer to purchase contract online or contact a realtor to get a blank copy. review the agreement to be sure assignment is not expressly excluded. if there is nothing excluding assignment from the contract then writing the words "/And or Assigns" after the name or company's name on the buyer's line should be sufficient.Good luck!

We have a decent plan working now, its just a matter of financing and scaling.

There is a cumbersome way to do it on paper forms, but you should not.The only sensible way is to submit your 1099s to the IRS online, however not directly with the IRS.

That is online with what we’ve been paying when we were able to find help.

Unless the designer has a good social/online footprint with designs I like, I would think twice before hiring them no matter what others say.  

Not sure if that is still legal or even translates in today's world of everything online but seemed like a good screening tool to me at the time. 

Anything involving a service animal and ADA should be directly consulting an attorney on the matter as every case is different.