I'm a bit confused with this aspect of these deals and if it's important to procure my own lawyer or if it even matters?

Ultimately this will simplify your life and make investing a more hands-off ordeal than fishing for a real estate agent to bring a tenant each time you have a vacancy.However, if you are PM averse, Zillow Rental Manager is your best single-stop for procuring a ready, willing, and able tenant in my experience.

I've run my own successful IT consulting business doing everything from process improvement, design, development, QA, training, support, implementations, product management, and managing multi-million dollar projects with niches in ERP, FinTech, Procure-to-Pay, and Compliance. 

you wnat to just troll the expired listings on mls if you have a way to get to them.. those U can go after without the seller being obligated to pay a commish.. most listing agreements have a trail feature IE if the listing was a procuring cause to the sale the seller is still obligated to pay commish for an additional 90 days after the listing was cancelled something of that nature. 

We had to get engineering set for door design, procure lumber via specialty suppliers, then engineer how lift would work.

Then the new tenant obtains permits to build to their needs and procures a new COO based on their improvements.Tenant pays rent and covers all costs the day you hand them the key.

Under Florida Statute 475.42(1)(a), the crime of Unlicensed Practice of Real Estate is committed when a person engages in real estate activities listed under Florida Statute 475.01(1)(a) without a real estate license for compensation.Those activities include anyone who:who advertises or holds out to the public by any oral or printed solicitation or representation that she or he is engaged in the business of appraising, auctioning, buying, selling, exchanging,. . .orwho takes any part in the procuring of sellers, purchasers,. . . or the real property of another,

That's fair for both sides; you get cost certainty on either materials & labor, or labor only if you're willing to go through the effort of procuring materials, and the contractor either makes a little more profit on the job by being diligent about controlling costs or doesn't have to worry about the things S/he can't control (which is almost always material). 

Your agent might be able to sue you for fess they acquired in good faith effort to sell your property - marketing, includes pictures etc. this can go into other things based on a procuring cause as well when breach of contract has been established;If you went the FSBO route after ‘firing’ your agent, any buyer that came through that was a result of the first efforts made by your agent could be grounds for a suit of commission as they were the original procuring cause (they technically brought the buyer to your property first with their efforts), if you went on to ‘bad mouth’ your agent a subsequent defamation suit could possibly arise.

Use veterans to procure the housing, use veterans to rehab the housing, use veterans to populate the housing.