It is quick and likely less expensive than refinancing.

Our spaces have leased up quickly and easily via word-of-mouth/social media/networking to date, but they’ve also been smaller, less expensive, rehabbed spaces and very comparable to everything else on our few block long stretch of commercial storefronts.

Also if they are trying to mow really long grass or wet grass the electric ones don't have the same power and they could kill it quickly, leaving me stuck replacing it. 

My plan is to get the properties in my name this way and then quick claim deed them over to a LLC although I know that I probably wont be able to do that.2.

And for the content it should really be quick to the point about what you are trying to do.

On the flip side, you're going to have to ask yourself if you have any attractive alternates in which to invest your money and, preferably, are you willing to live in the in the new investment (i.e. house hack a multi-family property) or significant downgrade your standard of living accommodation.

That allowed me to quickly see where my income was coming from and where my expenses were going out.

You want to be in a position where you can act quickly once a good deal comes onto the market.  

Quick maths $158k / 2 = $79,000, I'm going to overshoot and go for a 7% cap rate assuming it's in Tulsa area (I know 45 mins away) where you are from and I get a value of $1,128,571.43.

If he refuses, could this quickly devolve into an eviction?