Having said that, after establishing relationships, in my experience, if you pay them in a timely fashion and call them often, they will allow for simply material based payments upfront with the bulk of payment due upon completion of the job.

Ultimately we passed on using the platforms and instead opted to do it the old fashioned way. 

when you look at their financials they have negative equity and on the surface it looks bad. when you look at their revenue it has grown the past 10 years by at least 10%.

Until I understand that, I will continue to look for deals the old fashioned way and will continue to report robo-dialers as SPAM to my provider and have their numbers blocked.

I'm under contract on another property in Ocean City Maryland so not looking to enter the Lancaster market in an STR fashion for a bit.

:@Levi T.Not responding to a member of a protected class due to membership in such class is discrimination.There is not a single case, successful or otherwise, where someone has claimed discrimination and won, based on someone failing to get back to them in a timely fashion, or not at all. 

My issue is I do not have the technical skills to build that out myself, so I find myself stuck doing things the old fashioned way. 

You should have a non-circumvent/non-disclosure with both parties in case they decide to boot you out of the transaction.Assigning a contract is not illegal, but you'd BETTER read your state's laws to make sure you are not operating in a fashion that gets you fined, imprisoned and lose your business and assets.

Compare that and the refinish price against another surface and see what it more cost effective/looks better for what you are trying to do. 

This just scratches the surface for you.