Wondering how smooth the transaction was and how their communication is.

It also eliminates the need for appraisals, and the annoyance of detailing every minor financial transaction while you apply for a new loan as well as loan origination costs etc and since you don't have to deal with the bank  you can close a lot faster.

I'm guessing they'd let you transact business for yourself. 

Just getting my wholesaling business started and looking for a title company/closing attorney in the Adirondack Park area who is familiar with wholesale transactions.

The reason is that the price range you outlined is likely to put you in C or worse areas and those can be very difficult to manage effectively. 

You should use either LLC’s (the old and expensive way) or a Series LLC (the new and more cost/time effective way).

Also how does this effect our landlord insurance?

Everyone kept saying it is hard to comp bc of the second house on the property, but the town considers it single family since the cottage was built before multi family zoning laws were in effect.

Maybe it wouldn't bother me so much if I didn't have to pay taxes on the Martha Stewart effect and those handles cost a more reasonable buck-fifty or so each.

Through automation we are able to make our operations more cost effective and with the rise of folksonomy and the sharing economy, smaller scale operations are now able to compete on a marketing level with legacy name marks.