It sounds like you have some legit and extremely valuable characteristics for this business - integrity & willingness to learn.

South Lake tahoe, by the casinos, has acres of garbage C duplexes...1 mile from million dollar homes...

Dean, if you were a legit operator and were a licensed agent or had someone who was a licensed realtor on your team you would be able to look the house up on maardata.org and see that we indeed purchased the home for $58k.  

He quoted about 50-60k cost in rehabbing the place that includes materials and labor, how do I know that that is fair and legit?

Does anyone have a legit contact person or phone number for someone at Hubzu who knows what is going on or the listing Agent / Agents?.

If there is a legit issue with the HVAC then you need to fix it.  

They are located in the UK, not Africa and the person who sent me the email is also listed as one of the Principals there, so far it is legit as far as I can see but I am still doing due diligence, got a friend there in the UK and asked him to see if its Legit, getting a birds eye so to speak, on the ground seeing I am getting info over the internet, and from what I have read there is nothing negative about them.

Sounds like competition to me.The officers seem to be from legit companies in the industry.I'd also assume that to get 2.1M in seed money with expectations of 20+M someone contacted legal counsel and established the brokerage or as residential lender covering compliance issues.

You are familiar with the legit ways - general mailing or contacting them for a different service other than the listing of the property.

What should I do when going about making a deal should I put his name on the deed as well so no one gets scammed and make it legit?