His rationale, if I follow him correctly, seems to be that it produces a cleaner chain of title but also it doesn't void the title insurance policy on the original warranty deed in my name. 

Which is often to help PM's produce reports for landlord clients. 

Assuming your side business LLC has no employees other than you, and that it produces earned income (not passive earnings), then you would be qualified. 

If there was a handshake deal, it can be enforceable as is even though it is incredibly difficult to do so.

Also, we are tennis players, and in a one week visit found two incredible tennis communities in st aug

Knowing you can evict without even going to court again is an incredible incentive to pay on time!

GC will follow attached plans & SOW (which I produced).2.

It's hard for people to quantify their time value but it's incredibly important.

Typically though an appraiser will use a income capitalization approach on an income producing asset.Essentially value is derived from the Income - Expenses = Net Operating Income and then a cap rate gets applied to it to determine value (cap rate isn't a sole indicator of value just one of the many parameters that people look at).Feel free to DM me some details and I can assist, but it varies market to market.  

it’s kind of incredible folks still looking at RE with cap rates at 1.5%, 3%, 6% etc.