We encourage questions and dialogue during the presentation to keep everyone engaged.

I will most definitely not be engaging with her or her realtor again.

Did you try to get other bids or engage other contractors to see how much they are willing to or would be able to get the same work done for?

Once the property was acquired and rehabbed by the Investor Partners who set up the "Credit Partner," the deed would then be transferred from the "Credit Partner" to the LLC of the ACTUAL Partners, $10k would be given to the "Credit Partner" and that Credit Partner's role was ended.This was FAIRLY common and all kinds of people, from Mom and Pop to experienced Real Estate Investors had conducted this.Most people believed that Credit Partners was a win-win for everyone.The problem here was that the "Credit Partner" is an illegal STRAW Man, who pretended to have the intent to own a property for his own use only to defraud a Mortgage Company.But this was fairly common practice and was done ALL THE TIME.When the financial crisis hit, the major players who ran this scheme was put in to jail as the Investors lost money from their properties.

I recently rented out my place to a NFL player (rookie) in Atlanta and he had to break the lease after recently being traded after only a couple of months.

In investor relations and the world of capital raising, there is an NBA player who is young and has just come into considerable wealth and wants to invest, and there is the teacher who has worked 30 years on a decent salary and is looking to invest retirement money.

Maybe the services are 1-off and you only need to engage them when you have specific questions in that state.

Then start taking some steps, find the key players in your area.

You can probably have a lawyer draft up a good operating agreement for the property specific LLC and use that each time, plugging in the players, but yes... a separate LLC (or partnership, if you choose that structure) is necessary. 

However if the listing agent has not disclosed a variable rate commission, and then subsequently engages in one, that is against the NAR's MLS policy, and though I cant speak to every state, is likely illegal, as it is in the states Im licensed.