Second, your PM should be providing you with an analysis of market rent, they have access to what their other clients in the area are currently charging.Once you have a solid market rent, your PM should let you decide how much to raise rent, unless you want to hand that over to them. 

Sounds like you may have found a Gem among the rubble. one point of Info: In Texas most Title Companies will not recognize a "Quit Claim" Deed, except on occasion from one relative to another. 

Neither does it make one a charity or a tenant advocate to recognise that it is in a business's best interest to retain it's customers so routinely threatening to fire them is probably not the best client retention strategy.To your specific question.

I listened to his long winded explanations of what was going on (he lives alone) and told him I recognized I'm hounding him as we talked 1-2 times a week but I hope he understood which he did. 

As agents, we can't access the exchange directly but when we rate up the house in a particular company we run reports before finalizing the sale.I usually recommend to my clients that they ask the current owners if they have had any claims in the past 5 years and what happened.  

I have worked in the 1031 space doing commercial replacement properties for about 12, but am now looking to set up a QI as per requests of a lot of my clients.

I have a client from Denver and their sweet spot is $150-$200k for duplexes or tri-plexes.

We have many thousands of clients holding rental property in their IRA accounts who are very pleased and getting good results. 

A home inspector  is too low on food chain , they wouldnt be recognized by the building inspectors You would need a engineer to inspect and certify what was done .  

I always tell my clients however, if you are considering doing a transaction that you are uncertain would be in violations to the rules, simply ask.