Anyone have any helpful hints on a smooth transition?

Save the marketing cost and time and step up on a deal The reason people do paid marketing, is to scale and have some sense of control on how many leads you get.If 100 dollars gets you 10 leads, the idea here is that 1000 dollars gets you 100 leads.See, most people do not understand efficiency.If you have a team and you are paying a team and your team can handle an X number of leads a month, you better feed them X numbers of leads, otherwise you are not running your business on full capacity and efficiency and you are leaving money on the table.So you DO want to have some sort of control when it comes to running your business.Now you can either hire or fire based on the amount of leads you have (not very optimal in my humble opinion), OR you can  hire the necessary people that would help run your business smoothly and then do the controllable, scalable lead gen platforms to match the lead flow to your man power. 

Balloons are popular with seller finance so make sure you have enough run way to get the property operating smoothly and enough equity to refi or sell when the balloon hits. low money down is a great way to scale but you have to keep a good handle on your finances other wise you can scale your problems.

That's how I normally run my projects, and they always run smooth unless we run into a permit issue.

We are closing in Feb (by signing I literally meant signing the contract), but inspection is all set with no surprises, everything is rolling smoothly, they just needed a little more time to have carpets installed in their new place.

They key is a good team as I kind of got screwed in the beginning but now that I have a great manager/handyman things are running smoothly and I am getting good cash flow on ultra cheap homes. 

There are going to be times when the client is unsure of the process and if you can just keep reminding them of what they are hoping to accomplish and how the mortgage will help them accomplish it, it will go much more smoothly.

Since it’s going to be more than $100 jump for them per month, how do I smoothly get it done without causing any concern for us

It smooths out your cashflows, keeps you from falling into the common BP PM trap of being penny-wise and pound foolish, and most likely will end up saving you time/headaches.

That helped me run smoothly as I grew to 1000+ units.