Up front fees of about $8k seemed worth the investment to have access to $200k at my fingertips.  

Paid cash for the purchase, and then financed into a HELOC to pull most of my funds back out and have access to the remainder if needed.

- Can their system adopt special instructions like, where techs can access a master key to enter an apartment?

Make sure it is somewhere easily accessible that doesn’t require any tools to turn off.  

But, in today's market, especially if you are not a builder already with your own teams, the cost to buy an existing property is often cheaper than constructing.But like Jaron noted, you have access to capital through some form of refi on inherited property, and that gives you options on how best to invest that money.

I wish I read it two years ago when I signed up for the protege program.since then, I have paid $10k in lump sum and keep paying $200 monthly to access the platform.

Overall Austin is currently a Buyers market but there are some neighborhoods that are Sellers markets due to good schools, accessibility to Tech hub job areas, parks, entertainment etc.

The real value I see in the course is that he has access to more capital than most investor would trust me with.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like that county provides that information for free online, BUT they do upload it to a private company that will sell you access to it online for a fee:https://www.courthouseonline.com/

They may have access to paperwork that can help with this.