My personal recommendation for a broker for a new player is Joanne Stevens of Iowas Reality out of Cedar Rapids, IA.

These professional softwares literally write checks for you (like online banking) and have controls in place so you can have employees safely make payments for you without them having true banking controls.

My mentors advice would be to stay in my lane and only deal with things in my control. 

If a client wants to use Chase I will be a team player.

It's always a good idea to change the locks between tenants (you indicate this person just walked through the door).Some landlords will go through the eviction process before attempting to rent again just to make sure the property is legally back under their control. 

I agree the markets have lost control and spiking the rent is a risky move.

I would recommend putting your money into a cash flowing market as a GP yourself to give you more control but LP is always an option. 

Master meter utilities are the bane of any investors existence, unless you somehow figure out a system to monitor and/or control usage. 

You're banking on future events you have no control over...that's not investing, that's speculating.Besides, you own the property, but the property owns the equity...not you.I would hope you could find a much better financial situation than this one.

Its very common even for billions of USD worth top players to bend approval process to construct 10s of floors with out local corporations even knowing about them.