How long have you held?

It's a bit of investigative work, because most likely you will find that most or all of these properties of this size will be held by an LLC or a corporation -- from there, you can proceed on trying to find names behind those companies by searching in the Secretary of State filings in the state of which that company was formed.Once you have your list, start calling or mailing.If you don't want to spend the time doing this on your own, there are subscription based services out there that aggregate this data for you, but of course for a price.

I'll try to make this as simple as possible.My business partner and I are opening up an LLC in Arkansas but the process is held up for 2-6 because our registered agent had to fax a form to the IRS to receive EIN. 

The old appliances & scrap metal should be going to recycling on Wed.

They can block it by putting something in front of it or a piece of plywood held in place by a piece of furniture, but I wouldn't nail boards to the  fireplace.

Closing dates are unknown per their Agents, largely because the area is such as massive building zone and they are held up in permitting. 

It is my understanding that any 1099 subcontractor must have a workers comp policy, or I could be held liable under my worker's comp policy if their is an incident, and I would need to pay a premium for them on my policy regardless if there is an incident.

Here are some successful ones.List of Successful Syndicators Joe Fairless - https://www.ashcroftcapital.comIvan Barratt - http://www.barrattassetmanagement.comGrant Cardone - https://cardonecapital.comNeal Bawa and Jean Marc - http://financial-attunement.comKira Golden - https://directsourcewealth.comBrian Burke - https://praxcap.com Tag Birge and Andrew Held - ttps://www.birgeandheld.comBrian Adams - http://www.adamsinvestorgroup.comVinod Chopra - http://moneilinvest.comChad Doty - https://37parallel.comKevin Bupp - https://sunrisecapitalinvestors.com (mobile Home Parks)Scot Meyers - https://selfstorageinvesting.com (Self Storage) Hunter Thompson - https://cashflowconnections.comDevin Elder -http://www.djetexas.comMichael Becker -http://www.spiadvisory.com/

If I put 20% down and the seller held a note for 10 years, how does the listing agent get paid?

@William Dubinsky  Unless you got the repairs in writing, you are out of luck; even then you should have had money held back at closing until you inspected that the repairs had been done properly.It is hard to see now, but once you get the place fixed up, you can probably get better tenants and more rent AND will have increased the resale price when you go to sell.