Do ensure that the pest control company you call is experienced in bed bug treatments.

How can RE players (developers, investors) re-purpose this potentially archaic asset class to something else for the future - like apartment units?

Get solid support to help ensure your success. 

Good idea to include your contractor financially in the project like you did to help ensure the quality and swiftness of the work. 

A lot of the major local investor players will be at these events. 

You can turn on/off whenever you want. in my eyes it is better to spend even up to a few hundred bucks to ensure you arent buying a bad/non-producing property.

If they have a ton of cash and want to keep competitive, they can.Most big players like Rocket and UWM service their loans, but they still sell the loan to FNMA or to their jumbo investor and they usually maintain servicing rights.  

I'm trying to understand what responsibility the GC is trying to pass on to me other than ensuring work passes inspections.

Wiedenmayer Prior to purchasing the appraisal, do a comp analysis to ensure that your house will appraise at the level you want.

Would definitely recommend that you visit their POS website to review all of the resources yourself to ensure you're prepared.