Don't waste your time as a investor.

Putting in a contingency offer would be a waste of time as this will definitely sell to someone without one.

I think it will have a lagging effect on investors and discourage capital investment.

Both effectively allow you to defer capital gains.

Make sure the $5K is not for other third-party fees such as any environmental, title or credit check expense.As for who can order an appraisal, I would defer to an actual appraiser but my understanding and experience is that appraisal regulations only impact regulated groups such as banks and therefore hard money lenders can effectively make up their own rules regarding appraisals since they are not regulated like banks and are lending their own funds.Finally, banks do not have the "right" to redline.

Some of the most effective Operators are team based.

Why don't you list the minimum qualifications in the ad so I don't have to waste my time filling something out that I won't qualify for? 

The reason is that the price range you outlined is likely to put you in C or worse areas and those can be very difficult to manage effectively. 

You should use either LLC’s (the old and expensive way) or a Series LLC (the new and more cost/time effective way).

Also how does this effect our landlord insurance?