After you have a little experience under your belt you will likely find the one common problem you have most often will be not enough funding to fund the opportunities that you will find.

While they may be an "agent" in the common parlance  they are not "your agent" until you have a contractual agreement that they are representing you.

Every time I have moved I have handed over ownership ON the closing date ( meaning at closing I hand over the keys and never go back) and I think that is extremely common.

I went on to point out that one of the most common mistakes that people with money make is to fail to understand that owning and running a manufactured housing land lease community is not like "clipping coupons".

The second girl however, has a masters degree in psychology and is working for a health company right now in Southern California and wants to transfer back to Northern California to her old job (another health company).

If this works is this common practice for buy and hold investors?

Is it common to have these kinds of requests before viewing multi-families?

Indemnification agreements are common, security deposits may be or include offsets, assignments of bonds, insurance, receipts, etc. such usually in a larger complex.....how many sq ft are you looking at? 

More common for the small guy Landlord would be you have a vacant unit and tenants that are staring a 1 year lease on 7/1 but since it is vacant they agree to pay the last 10 days of rent in June and move in today.  

It's a really common experience in South Florida to get nil response from the LA.