All this does is report their payments to the credit bureaus like how your credit cards or car loan company reports payments to the bureaus.  

I was looking for a halal mortgage company and went with Guidance Residential.

Unfortunately there competitiveness in the market and cut throat antics give the other offices (company) a bad name. 

The company is as well.

As others have said there are many experienced RE agents, management companies, and so on...Best of luck to you! 

Right after I closed on that one the insurance company demanded I make a couple thousand dollars of repairs.

My business partner and I just opened up our property managment company in the Chicago/Chicagoland area and it is not easy to do this the "right way".Honestly you can get yourself into some serious trouble if something happened with a tenant, an injury, anything and they sue and find out you don't have a license.

If you are a person who has a full time job, or runs other companies, it is my professional opinion that you will be better served having the GC handle everything and report to you on your schedule.Once you decided to run the operation yourself, you are now employed by the development.

I would get a slab/foundation company out there to take a look at the property and see what the quote is to repair it.

Lots of property management companies sell turnkey flips and also have realtors that can find you value add properties, and they probably have contractors to recommend and even may handle the project management for you if you're going to use them to manage the property.