If they say you don't need any, I would ask them why (and give a quick call to building department, describing your scope of work and see if you get same answer).

DO NOT invest with Chris Walters or Jim Thorpe, they are repeated and known scammers who have been issued fines by the WA State Department of Financial Institutions and are currently under investigation. 

In the past, the Department of HUD targeted S8 rents to be at the lower end of a rental market.

If you don't do a lot of transactions make a folder and label it 2024 scan and store all receipts for bookkeeping.

There have been multiple legal challenges to this position of the FTB (California tax department, or Franchise Tax Board), but I don't believe any CA resident won such a fight.

Do you think it’s best to use them or can I handle these transactions on my own? 

This means there are no checks and balances to ensure all your transactions are entered correctly.

It is a hassle of course to log into each account to check on transactions, balance etc.

I just went through an excruciating transaction with Don Wenner and DLP.

I'm eager to start the work of finding a drive-by appraiser and calling title & insurance companies to close this transaction.