With these precautions you can allow prospects to view your property at their convenience and freedom to look around without the landlord standing behind them, following them from room to room. 

According to some of my comps we stand to make a pretty decent profit selling in the hot market but we want to sell before we have paid the house off and move into another house that we can rehab then flip.

Do they have a legal standing to make it difficult for the person that purchased the appraisal to receive a copy of the appraisal?

@Chris Levarek I calculated a 35% increase over last year's premium, so definitely noticeable. great question, and my taxes should increase substantially; previous owner had a long standing homestead exemption in place 

From an insurance stand point you should make sure that they have insurance (general liability) and probably workers comp - although by the sound of this, this is a smaller contractor who likely doesn’t have it.

Even if an individual provides their phone number or has a long-standing relationship with the business, the company cannot text the individual if they have not granted written consent.""

What do they stand to lose?

Personally I can't stand the term PITCH.It just invokes in my mind a sleazy tactic to try to sell someone on something and talk them into doing it.I like the term "present you an opportunity" better.I think choice of words can have a bigger impact than people give them credit for. 

I stand by my post: signing a contract without being able to close and /or having intention to close is more than wrong in many ways.

You have a good hand so you stand up.