My only issue is the owner doesnt want to share pictures of the inside of the home due to their own personal feelings about how the house " looks" wants to sell as is inlcuding leaving everything in the house.

Sometimes big corporations have a tendency to keep certain projects on life support and not really moving forward.They don't want to scrap it but haven't been presented with a plan or motivation to improve and move it forward.

I use and outside company to screen and it's typically only $45 for me per person and I ask the applicant to pay the fee.

You wanna keep going because your confidence  is 100%.

Personally I am not a fan of sitting on a lot of POH homes for sale at the same time. 

From a bookkeeping standpoint, this makes everything a lot easier as long as each financial account is used the way it is supposed to be used (no commingling).I would just caution you to think about the functionality of that structure within your day-to-day business operations before pulling the trigger on it.Make sure you're keeping things as simple and efficient as possible.

I'm gonna tag @Elise Bickel Tauber in this post as she's definitely the right person for you to get in touch with in terms of investing in the Pittsburgh market - smart move by the way. 

If the PM hired them, you can try to hold the PM accountable for hiring an uninsured person, then it would be up to the PM to go after the contractor.

For me personally, we have tired to keep rent increases to a minimum to reduce turnover and that led to having lower NOI unfortunately due to two things:1.

Does anyone have any helpful advice or personal experience on splitting the profits of your first several flips with your GC?