Id say any legitimate business in todays world should have a website.

The first being that I had to showed her the detailed numbers on several properties that would actually be legitimate rentals (no hypothetical scenarios here).

First, I would expect BP lives not on a single server, but that's not really germane to the topic.With a well crafted, multi-origin, DDOS effort it becomes very difficult to separate legitimate connections for new sessions (i.e. you reading the forums) from the fabricated request whose purpose is to consume service resources.

This was precisely the REI niche I was interested in and I believed we were in a legitimate deal. 

If you have a venue for investing your money that will provide you really good returns then you will likely want to be bought out.In terms of what sort of discount rate they will use to determine the buy out value, I do not have experience with that.

Your other worry is also legitimate.

That doesn't make it legitimate or correct to weasel out of a contract because the seller is too naive to know what the property should sell for or the legal minutiae.

Regulation makes things more difficult and costly for legitimate business....which you could argue hurts consumers because of added costs.But lack of regulation allows business to hurt consumers through unfair business practices.There is no perfect solution where business is free and unregulated and consumers are protected.

Is he legitimate?

In addition, PTAA is a member of the Better Business Bureau, meaning the company adheres to the morals and guidelines of running an ethical and legitimate business.