For those numerous titles with complications, such as inheritance issues, missing heirs, multiple entity transfers, separation of title rights, partial lien releases, etc., it’s much more complicated.I have been involved in many transactions in which lawyers differed as to what was needed to obtain clear title.

It's not complicated...

This is complicated enough to talk to professional. 

to make this even more complicated they were encouraging investors to come in and pay 20k for the house so they made 10k selling it to the investor then would put the deal together with the contract for deed.. the houses were true junkers.. that thread went on for 500 posts.. 

I appreciate there would be insurance complications to this.

It is way more complicated than you think. 

After you learn the business you should take the wholesale deals when they come - but wholesaling is a very simple concept that can get very complicated real quick (complications are notorious for killing deals). 

I know this is complicated.

This is a tip that keeps coming up in all of my reading, you need to run your REI company like the business that it is and making clients out of family and friends can heavily complicate that goal. 

That could mean you just market the home as including electric service, and then bump up the rent to cover it.But doing this does complicate matters some, especially if the tenant's usage gets so high that you're no longer making money.