Also make sure they care Workers Compensation Insurance, there are numerous court cases have ruled the hiring party is responsible for injuries to independent contractor’s employees when the independent contractor did not have their own WC insurance.

You have to decide what you want appreciation only,cash flow,or combo of both.That will dictate the area more and how active or passive you have to be to get the return you want.

These properties were financed after the safe act went into affect.This attorney you used sounds grossly negligent from what YOU have said in many mistakes.The attorneys I know will send you a document and you read it and they REDLINE any changes and you discuss and go back and forth until you are satisfied.The fact that you didn't read at signing and TRUSTED as you say this lawyer has no bearing on the fact that you should have read it.A judge will see it the same way.What I am seeing is a mess created by two parties being you and your attorney.You have to figure out how to get things back on track.You need to know in each state where you own these properties if you can foreclose and how long that would take and what it would cost and what you could sell for to get any money back and move on.This attorney as you say sounds nice but general practice attorneys I find make numerous mistakes when handling specific areas of law.

[& is this escrow requirement,& 1% "activation fee" standard with HML's?

I actively invest in your market and hopefully we can do some business together in the near future (though I just bought a property so my cash is a bit thin now.).

All of this activity has made the good real estate deals extremely scarce in some markets.

Pulling from MLS, there haven't even been active listings (which is strange...).

Hopefully they were treated and are no longer active, and there isn't a lot more undiscovered damage.When is your termite inspection?

Some are gallons, cubic feet etc... then we use a program called Park Skdekick to track all of our mobile home park activity.

Well it depends on the county and who knew this information.In very active counties, like Cook where I am, there are 3rd party information services who publish this type of information to subscribers.