Its starting to bother me, and worry about too much disruption for tenants. heck i would be annoyed..His landscaper gives me a padded quote for yard fall cleanup.

The "corporate axe" still fell and knocked them off their professional tracks, and/or Wall Street ate their investments ("savings"), and/or domestic issues disrupted their lives, ...Rather than judge, I'd be far more likely to suggest to people that where ever they are and however they got there, here's what they need to do to start getting back on their feet and getting moving again, only toward a better end goal.My $0.02...

On the flip side the additional traffic (T.V. highway is bad enough now, add 20k residents and watch out) and the availability of nicer homes nearby might disrupt the values around the area. 

"...trolling involves starting arguments or upsetting people by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages with the intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion."

It’s not important that you agree with him or not, because he will disrupt your comfort zone, it’s rather a modern day survival tactic to keep our eyes on the ball.

Asbestos tests are relatively inexpensive depending on the extent, but they require materials in question are disrupted to test- chipping, walls, floors, etc. 

I like Ryan Evans idea.I think getting constant e-mail from Bigger Pockets multiple times a day to most will be a big disruption and almost seem like spamming which I am sure is not the intent.I use to select receive this or that notice years ago but received a bazillion notices so turned all of that off.It seems like people are wanting information selective to their interests in a big block of information maybe once a day etc.What I have been doing for years is I just go on the site daily once typically in the morning and once at night for about 15 to 20 minutes or so and read some topics and answer some questions.The needs of the site will vary greatly based on being a new user or the very experienced old guard on here that tend to learn from very advanced topics.ANDNo Brandon Turner I do not need to learn how to buy investment properties to duplexes with no money down............. ha.ha.ha   Brandon Turner is so tall they look at him and then give him no money down to buy their property.

In reality, given a number of cases I've personally witnessed, a maintenance repair need may often go undetected as well as unaddressed if and when the lessee truly believes doing little to nothing will in no way disrupt the daily operations of the business.

It takes less than 5 minutes to email one's buyer's agent the terms they'd like to offer (which in this case obviously includes an inspection contingency), so if you can't even set aside 5 minutes then why should the current landlord disrupt their tenants for 55 minutes? 

Assuming everything goes according to plan...massive economic events could easily disrupt those returns.As to your questions on fees:  Sponsor's typically charge acquisition fees ranging from 2% to 3% of the purchase price.