There is a gold mine of great information on this site and I'd urge you to spend some time reading and listening to the podcasts.

Welcome @James Powell, I'm from Northwest Arkansas and spend several days a year in the Dallas area.

@Kevin Hogan - You probably need to spend that in education.

This why vetting upfront is so important.On the other hand, a larger contractor may have real assets in the company or even a reputation that they want to protect so they want to find away to avoid getting into legals which waste time and money for them.With respect to contract size, in reality anything under 100K is not worth a full blown lawsuit as the legals will eat you alive even if you win; small claims court may be your best bet if you are OK managing the process or maybe using a paralegal.On the emotional side, I strongly urge you to put that aside.

Because a house purchase is a significant investment in one's life, it is worth your while in having a title attorney to ensure clear title and smooth closing, along with a good inspector to assess the investment property's condition, a good realtor that will protect you with the contract, and, of course, a good mortgage broker if you need financing for your deal.   

So that means, if I want to BRRR this property and get *all* of the cash/hard money/private money/HELOC money that I put in to buy and fix it, then I should not spend more than a total of $120,000.If I don't mind leaving some money on the table, then I could go over $120,000, but the true idea of BRRRR is to get all (or more) of your initial money back at refinance time.If you' don't quite follow this just yet, no worries, just keep reading on BP and listening to podcasts!

If the title company is having trouble with the title, why would you risk spending money on a property that you may never own?

I'm looking forward to learning a lot from this site and plan to spend the weekend reading all I can!

The link posted above lists Wisconsin's protected classes. 

Only having three units I don't feel I can justify spending hundreds on accounting software that is much more powerful than I need.