Despite all his bluster, they were gone the next day.As an aside, that 4-track was a fairly new arrival to the property. 

I am still fairly new to real estate and I am curious about how to get referrals for my mentor.

@Eric Jones welcome from a fairly new Knoxville guy!

Lots of deals fall through, but I were working with a newbie and doing this constantly, where my client was obviously not sure what they want or how to get it, I'd probably break up with them fairly quickly. 

I'm fairly confident I can/should skip the single family stuff and get into multifamily right away.

Fair enough.

If they are VERY professional, they will have their processes in writing as verification that it is enforced equally and fairly by their entire staff. 6.

A custom trust document can be thousands of dollars, title work always costs more than really necessary, and I end up writing most of my own contracts now anyway (at a fair amount of risk I'm sure). 

I pulled it up in Memphis and to be fair, the houses look horrible and the areas are bad. 

He does good work for a fair price in a timely fashion.