Do your own due dilligence, call several past customers and get more specific info on what type of work the provider did for these parties.

Also their customer service is great to deal with.

If the landlord uses a lease that contains any provision that conflicts with the Security Deposit Law and attempts to enforce that provision or attempts to obtain from you or a prospective tenant a waiver of any provision of the Security Deposit Law, the landlord cannot keep your security deposit for any reason including making deductions for damages.

Im just ready to move past being the contractor and not dealing with customers as much.

You can make your home purchase a liability or an asset, just depends on what your needs are.If I'm going to go live somewhere though In my position I would likely rent.A: because I still enjoy the prospects of moving around a lot. 

Always do the math analysis and try to look at the prospective properties or at least have a clause in the sales contract that allows you the time needed (10 to 15 days) to make a detailed inspection by you or somebody else of the subject property and possibly back out of the deal without a penalty that will hurt you too much and hurts you.  

Should I keep one spreadsheet for tracking prospective properties and recording the results of my due diligence, and another for tracking sales results post-deal? 

Fresh out of undergrad and without the prospect of a career job on the horizon, I took the plunge and moved from beautiful Reno/Tahoe to Knoxville, TN with the woman that I was dating at the time (now wife).

For anything nicer, custom built or Lowe's are good choices.

I am excited at the prospect of networking with some of the brilliant minds here at BP.