In theory it is possible to make rehab budget part of purchase price.Maybe instead of $400k, you make the sales price $450k and the seller agrees to disburse $50k to a GC of your choosing.

Will the pretty much take anyone, or are they picky in who the choose?

if you have the option to be the Bank. always choose that route unless this is a home you want to keep and maintain in your portfolio due to promise of large appreciation over time

Install them so that you can submeter the water usage and back charge the tenants if you so choose to do so. 4.

At the end of the day if you run your numbers correctly and perform proper due diligence you’ll do just fine No matter what path you choose.

Is it a reputable one?

Most retirement accounts will have fees which can vary quite a bit depending on which provider you choose.

The channel you choose is perhaps less important than the effort itself.

With State Farm, if you choose to lower the coverage to less than 80% of the determined replacement cost, your policy will switch over to ACV (actual cash value - aka depreciated value)in summary, just go find an insurance agent you can trust and make sure you give them very detailed info about the property so that you have an accurate replacement value. then you can make your decision on how much coverage you want from there. 

Contractors spend hours putting together Bid Proposals and it's not fair to them if you waste their time by 'shopping' and price matching with other Contractors.If you 'bid shop' Contractor's numbers you are going to get a bad reputation, and you will have a hard time finding Contractors to bid your projects.Sure, you may save a few dollars upfront, but ultimately you are going to p*ss off a lot of contractors and potentially hurt your business long-term.