We were quick to fire vendors and honest yet firm with our tenants.  

Additionally, I will use rewards cards to purchase materials, pay any vendors I can etc.  

Being a chef for the past ten years I have dealt with my fair share of sales people and vendors, those that are good communicators and take care of the client are the ones that I continue to do business with.

You cannot lump all Turn-Key vendors, companies, opportunities or properties into one simple category where you are going to get screwed to the wall with bad property and rents that are above normal, etc...

We want to move there at some point--and we're familiar with the areas--so it's almost been like an extension of our neighborhood.Our most important issue has been the quality of the PMs, and by extension, the vendors. 

I did contact datazapp.com a vendor where you can get email addresses and phone numbers for  cents each and the company is looking into giving me $300 in credit to pay half my BP costs.

You can certainly use a Warranty Deed to transfer the property to the LLC, and more specifically, you might want to use a 'Warranty Deed with Vendor's Lien' which spells out the lender/servicer, principal amount, trustee (in my state), and other pertinent info.

Or simply selling education which of course needs no licensure.. think the note school.I was at a AAPL convention in vegas this weekend and it was amazing when I walked through the vendor booths.. and I asked what states these folks lend in for rehab loans and most of them said all 50..

Lumber yards, plumbing shops, and online fixture vendors will come out ahead on price and with better service than the big box stores.

One of my Vendors added 67 properties to their portfolio last year and I financed all of them on the A and D side.  !!