Hey all - sorry I didn't jump in right away, but I thought doing so might prevent some comments.

So do Title companies do double closings in a specific way or something that prevents me from having to pay double the closing costs, if any?

Do inspections regularly to prevent costly repairs from deferred maintenance.

I agree with you in this situation, but recommending tenants contact the owners directly before dealing with the PM is preventing the PM from doing the job they've been hired to do.

Purchase contracts are "escrow instructions", so it's literally their job to implement what's in your contract, or to tell you why they can't.

You have a well laid out plan - implement it and you will be ahead of at least 90% of the people who make a plan, but never execute it.

We have some fairly new people here that have taken guru courses and seems all they can do is the talk, they don't have their money nor do they seem to be implementing any program consistently making the kind of money implied by those gurus.

I think it is their cute little trick to prevent their tenants from moving out.It's hard for their good tenants to find a new place to live if they can't get a landlord reference.

I copied the relevant section from Ohio law below For purposes of the immunity created by division (B)(1) of this section, reasonably necessary force to repel a trespasser from a building or other structure that is maintained as a permanent or temporary dwelling or to prevent a trespasser from making an unlawful entry into a building or other structure of that nature may include the taking of or attempting to take the trespasser’s life, or causing or attempting to cause physical harm or serious physical harm to the person of the trespasser, if the owner, lessee, or renter of real property or a member of the owner’s, lessee’s, or renter’s family who resides on the property has a reasonable good faith belief that the owner, lessee, or renter or a member of the owner’s, lessee’s, or renter’s family is in imminent danger of death or serious physical harm to person and that the only means to escape from the imminent danger is to use deadly force or other force that likely will cause physical harm or serious physical harm to the person of the trespasser, even if the owner, lessee, renter, or family member is mistaken as to the existence or imminence of the danger of death or serious physical harm to person.

Welcome aboard - by already being involved in a real estate transaction you are ahead of many who just read and never implement anything.