I didn't have any say in the tenant, nor did I get a chance to review the tenant, which was a little troubling, but I trust PPMG to handle that process better than me. 

Do you completely trust the attorney or is he new to you?

You can use an attorney you trust to help with the paperwork if you prefer to not use an RE agent.

Eventually, we decided to buy our home where we would raise our kids and grow old.We debated on selling the tri-level, but decided to rent it since we already had the house and we would not walk away with much cash.

If you have credit up to a certain level, most counties do down payment assistance and have other kinds of grants that promote homeownership for people who don't have a lot of money of the greatest credit.

@Richard Huynh you are not locked in until the day of closing but I would find someone you trust and make a commitment to the Loan officer or Broker.

You trust your contractor? 

I'm buying office, retail and special situations.But, let me also say, I have invested passively  in several multi-family syndications recently and even at these nose-bleed levels they still look much better than anything else I could invest in.

Overtime, she began to know and trust me and when she has people that doesn't have a realtor, she sends them my way.  

I was told that this is the most egregious breaches of a Realtors' Oaths and of course, breach of trust and that, at a minimum, I should receive the commission back.Please let me know what you did if this happened to you and / or, what I should do?