My intent for this posting was to affirm that the charges I'm seeing is the norm, not to make false accusations.

Does this make sense to anyone because it seems absurd to me.  

Whether his was past or current, don't contaminate with your gossip (true or false).

The absurd part to your argument is you have it completely backwards.

Is that true or false?

I called a title company and they had told me it is illegal to write your own contracts and present them to the seller.That is absolutely false.

In all seriousness, paying that much is absurd.

rent guarntees for more than a month or two.. usually are used to get you to close and give you a false sense of security of your investment..  

And while it is true that the seller's agent owes you some level of duty (e.g. taking some reasonable steps to ensure that the seller didn't disclose false information on the seller's disclosure), I don't see any obvious wrongdoing from the short facts you gave.If you want to pursue this, I again recommend that you sit down and talk to a lawyer.

@Anthony Wick....yeah I've never had units in weather sensitive areas, so I'll defer to those with the experience of dealing with that part..... so if no one moves in winter, then in general turnover should be very small in those months whether you have a long lease or M2M I guess it protects for rare occurrence when people do move during those months and you struggle to find someone to move in....totally understand wanting to do that....I get it...... but if you cant rent it back out quickly and will never see the $$ from the previous tenant, then its a false sense of security....sounds great IF you can get the $$ from the previous tenant....but that's a huge IF to me.....If you have a longer lease and start working hard to fill it as soon as you get notice that they will terminate early.....and usually get it rented quickly...and the old tenant isn't getting stuck with paying for vacancy in most cases....then its really not any different than having a M2M.