I am not saying I need my hand held.

Again, if you sell a decently priced house your fees for the rest of the year can be covered, a $40k house won't cover it.Lastly, off the top of my head, you are held to a higher standard with your license. 

Perhaps what I have said in the past which is what's usually said, that you can't force a seller to sell but you can make them wish they had, needs a little tweaking; in a construction build where an owner refuses or can't sell for some issue, it comes down to the equity held in the property, a builder holds the largest lien, with the lender, and a builder can certainly force sale by court order.

As soon as you put together a deal that has you compensated above a "standard" commission, you run the risk that the "wronged" party will complain to the Real Estate Commission (they define the Rules for brokers) and you'll be held accountable.

If your fabrication business gets sued and your rental property is held by the same LLC, then both the business assets and the property can potentially be taken.

They somehow drove all the way to the house, knocked down a pillar for the upstairs porch, drove into security door, shattering the glass and bending twisting the metal framing, and also broke the downspout on our drainage system.

The security deposit is held specifically for these types of situations.

Secondly, if she is domiciled in the UK, she may run into the problem of how the mortgage interest is treated back in the UK, if the property is not held in a US LLC.

The seller held my postcard for two years!!!

Long story short, it was my bachelor pad before I got married, held onto it through my marriage and rented to family and friends for the past 7 years.