Most states have a landlord tenant guidebook that you should know.  

I also went to an rei meeting where they gave a method for a llc to appoint the owner as an agent, and somehow this allowed the owner to do the eviction.

Point me in the right direction in terms of non-profit orgs or advocacy groups that may be helpful.

I've taken both of your suggestions and have a appointments to meet now with a meetup networking group and my local REI.Mindy, I'm looking mostly at single family flips, or flip to hold.

It needs to be nice and well appointed.

I learned while listening on the biggerpockets podcast and my own experience selling things on craigslist how bad people are at making appointments for viewings of the rental.So we posted our rental with open house dates and times on Trulia, Zillow, Postlets, Craigslist, etc. and whenever people would call, we would say to meet us during any of the open house windows.

I get appointment.

He seemed like a PITA so the 20k offer was just from an exterior inspection and severely low balling him because he kept forgetting about the appointment for me to see inside the house.

The listing agent represents the seller and the broker will appoint another agent to represent the buyer.

I may just cancel my appointment because of the uncertainty around the hospital and move on...