I always instruct my students, though, to find buyers first.

If you use a title company, what special instructions did you have to give the title company to make the double close work with them?

In Georgia (the state where I'm licensed), you must either be a licensed broker or an unlicensed assistant to a broker in order to perform any of the following functions on behalf of a property owner: (A) Delivering a lease application, a lease, or any amendment thereto to any person; (B) Receiving a lease application, a lease, or any amendment thereto, a security deposit, rental payment, or any related payment for delivery to and made payable to the broker or the owner; (C) Showing a rental unit to any person, provided that the employee is acting under the direct instructions of the broker, and executing leases or rental agreements; (D) Providing information about a rental unit, a lease application, or a lease; (E) Providing information to a tenant about the status of such tenant's security deposit or rent payments or to an owner about the owner's financial accounts and payments from the owner's tenants; and (F) Performing any ministerial acts that are explicitly authorized by the broker in a written agreement between the broker and the employee.

I'm excited to hear what works for you or what you are looking to make more efficient.My Application/Renting policy is below:1.Schedule 2-3 times per week where you’ll be available for showingsa.At least one over lunch and one afterwork or weekend2.At showing if potential tenant is interested give them the instructions on how to submit application online 3.Once application is received online make sure it is complete4.If complete, send them the background check emaila.Review Eviction, Credit, Criminal history to ensure tenant passes requirements5.Check Background/criminal / eviction history6.If Eviction, Credit, Criminal history pass checka.Call employer to verify incomeb.Call past landlordi.

But, if the buyer is getting a loan, lenders are not accepting assigned contracts and before they fund they will review the settlement statement or give directions as to costs allowed in their closing instructions letter.   

You can check it out at http://nycapitalsummit.comGeorge Ross, Donald Trump's attorney and right hand man for most of the past 40 years is the keynote speaker and principal instructor.

While you may be the owner, you are not the boss of the workers there, they belong to the GC, not you, so don't give instructions or make demands of them.

The instructors are very skilled at their craft though.

No lenders on this database, follow instructions provided in resource to define a lender.https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/7704/48421-3-secrets-everyone-needs-to-know-about-using-a-203k-loan---its-easy

They also get all sorts of bad information from gurus, courses, podcasts, and yes, even some folks here on BP who may be instructing them to do things which violate some state's laws.