If your 2k is just for their fee, not the other expenses, then call around or go online for estimates from other settlement companies so you can compare. 

If it is seller financed, you have no real estate agent fiduciary protection, so it is up to you to protect yourself.After all that, then, yes, work with an attorney on how you hope to close, LLC, trust, or in your name. 

Then on Jan 1st (or any other random day.) of each year go back to the list.

If you do LTR, then try some of the smaller cities and college towns. 

Then the water made it all the way into the finished basement. 

- Are we able to word our new lease such that if utility costs exceed the established flat rate then the tenant is responsible for the difference?

I still have them complete my full application separately, and for those who do the showing and like it after passing my initial screening, then I run a background/credit check of my own.

, or frankly just well-intentioned government regulators looking to stay active in their bureaucracy (I have personally seen this) get involved, then that same interpretive leeway gives the regulator even more power at the expense of the public interest.

This--> "contribute to your community by providing affordable housing to those in need" is why I invested in my community to start, and if Section 8 allows me to help a part of the community underserved, then that is where I want to be!

Do you collect rents and then distribute owner payouts + your commission using Baselane?