Personally when I rented I was always rolling my eyes when I saw a coin-op machine in the building and felt like that was just an extra hidden cost into my rent.

Your ARV LTV is between 60-65%, which is bread and butter to most lenders also.Talk with many lenders and find one that matches well with what your strong points are (credit score, potentially income, potentially reserves), that you believe you can work well with (responsive, knowledgeable), and that has some experience to complement your lack of experience.

Did they stress out over not having enough by spending an extra few minutes to depower the entire home before leaving or drive an extra ten minutes to save $0.08 per gallon of gas?

If i don't pay anything for the audit defense, then I do not have a deduction.Furthermore, if the CPA made an error that resulted in additional tax and interest/penalties, then I would pay the extra tax but expect the CPA to cover the interest/penalties.

Also, talk to property management companies, they have inside knowledge of the owners. 

We were contacted by other agents who offered to lease the property, but we turned them all down as we thought our buyer’s agent has the better access and knowledge than others.To help with getting the property rented, we listed the property at some other places by ourselves and were directly contacted by many potential tenants contacted us.

Be prepared with extra money.

I would NEVER recommend cutting buyer's agent commission.2) When you're new, you need advice and market knowledge.

Knowledge (They actually know what they are talking about)2.

With my limited knowledge about Tx, Tx is a no license state, so therefore no bonds as well -- aka anyone can build; only some trades like electrical etc need a license.