Personally set up and ran over 100 properties.

I set up my team there, and the passive income will replace my full-time income shortly.The best part - in the last few years, I adopted a newer investment strategy that allowed me to buy many more properties every year, without leveraging my funds and also helped me lower PITI, and increase net cash flow.    

At that moment, no formal agreement had been signed, and all the necessary paperwork was set to be processed today.

I'm purchasing several properties and I would like to set them up as lease options and hire a management company to manage them.

There is a big difference between $50 over average top of market rent and $250 over average top of market rent.You can ask whatever you want, and can improve a property as much as you want, but the reality is that the market sets the rent that it will bare and not the landlord.

When I listed it to sell, I included photos of old door knobs, lead glass windows, crown moldings etc which is what I look for in an investment property in Milwaukee, the old world charm with contemporary kitchen upgrades sets the unit apart from other rentals, because of this and the size of these units 1800 SQFT each, we were able to increase the rents significantly.

That means an estate would have to be set up.

On the other hand a good agent can definitely negotiate well for you and frankly just having a 2nd set of eyes is good if the agent is looking out for you, you can also play some good cop/bad cop negotiation strategy which I’ve found to be very effective.

Do a search and set up a keyword alert for tax liens. 

Rates are set by the banks / Pref Equity Groups / LIFECO / etc.