If you want to get around this simply require ALL credit reports be given to you for the purpose of supervision of your agent to prevent discrimination against protected classes under the Fair Housing Act.I would not pay any lawyer a dime if they could not prove this appropriate business purpose.Does the person that wrote the following sentence practice out of form book?"

Sell and make it some other person’s problem.

You can invest in anything except the following:  Life insurance (SDIRA only) and for both collectables and disqualified parties/prohibited transactions.

So definitely shop around and don't just take one persons word for the full picture of what is out there for you. 

My only issue is the owner doesnt want to share pictures of the inside of the home due to their own personal feelings about how the house " looks" wants to sell as is inlcuding leaving everything in the house.

I use and outside company to screen and it's typically only $45 for me per person and I ask the applicant to pay the fee.

Owning it directly and actively can give you very high returns with the Leverage involved but requires quite a lot of work, quite a lot of your time, and quite a lot of your personal liability.

If the PM hired them, you can try to hold the PM accountable for hiring an uninsured person, then it would be up to the PM to go after the contractor.

I also have a dedicated LLC that I have not really used much in terms of changing my contracts to use the comapany name instead of my personal name.

I'm gonna tag @Elise Bickel Tauber in this post as she's definitely the right person for you to get in touch with in terms of investing in the Pittsburgh market - smart move by the way.