Now if my client said "I think we might take that 100K for our 225K house", I would say "Wait, let me drop it to 180K and see if we get traffic, let me drop it to 150 and see if we get traffic, just taking an offer less than half of asking is not in your best interest".As a buyers agent, making lowball offers on MLS properties that have not been on for a long time is a waste of time and energy.

I'm not certain but if you have a bullet proof paper trail on the funds, I wouldn't see why a judge would care whether you own the property now, or in the past. 

We are not as dependent on the energy sector as AB is.

Does anyone have any suggestions on another resource I should try or should I just bite the bullet and purchase a subscription?

It will save you time and energy converting later on when you out grow your current PM software or process / systems.

Someone posting 10 bullet points isn’t going to get you to where you need to be.

At the end of the five years your the one looking down the barrel of the bullet so your the one that has to decide if it’s a good idea for you or not.

For various reasons, we've tried to press forward with him but have now hit the final straw (submitting an incomplete drawing for the meter loop to the city's energy company, delaying the completion of the job further). 

You got lucky and evidently dodged the following bullet, but did you know some huge percentage of lenders (30% or so) will not finance investment properties at all for people who do not live in a primary residence that they own?

You can know and record when, for how long, and how much energy is used by the house heating system.