Assure the owners that you will be paying the lot rent even if your tenant doesn't pay you their rent.

Not sure why your friend has an issue with it but rest assured there’s nothing wrong with it.

For a few minutes, i'm trying to calm this woman down, assuring her that I was not trying to break into any of the multiple homes I had been seen walking around in this neighborhood and that I was just a property investor looking for vacant properties.

Which I can assure you prior to RE we were..

If he is in fact a man of straw and hence judgment proof then his assurances will mean nothing and you should walk unless he is willing to sweeten the deal in some other way so as to offset potential losses.

We have recently started working in a City which requires occupancy permits  - the stated reason is so they can assure standards of accommodations and track available inventory in the various quatiers - but you rest assured taxation is a motivation.

I assure you, I don't own a gun, so it's not even possible for me to hold a gun to anyone's head.

. $15k is a lot to just charge at once to ones CC and I’d like some assurance knowing who they are beyond their relatively slim Airbnb profile.

Saying commission will put you in an agency relationship, under laws of agency not a Realtor agency, but they are similar.This strategy and all the others will become clear to you if you learn the basics of real estate instead of trying to learn pieces of transactions separately, I assure you of that and it will be much quicker.

I asked the contractor a handful of times how he was on budget; he assured me he was in good shape.