Prevents any issues coming up later when you want to sell the property or when the county sends drones through your neighborhood looking for unpermitted pools/decks/carports, etc to try to raise revenue to cover unfunded liabilities in government spending. ;-)

I know he covers Cleveland, Akron, and all the surrounding suburbs. 

You'd be looking at putting 10% down and getting the rehab costs completely covered. 

Account Closed you just described what is known in the real estate world as "Practicing real estate illegally" If you're lucky a real estate agent in your state will not take a screen shot of your post and forward it to the real estate commission.  

So, like you said, partnering would be one option or getting private lender to cover a downpayment would be another.

@Wilson Rith With a 3-unit you have a better chance to having most of your mortgage covered.

I feel like I have my bases covered, but am wondering if I'm missing anything obvious or if you have any tried and true questions that help weed out the bad ones.Overall - can you help me get over the fear I'm having about handing my units to a company who (seemingly) will sweep in, re-lease to their paperwork (thus charging me 8 re-leasing fees), disrupt the tenant and their current habits (all of which are well-trained save for an older Section8 gentleman) and ask them to make changes? 

I agree with @Jay Shapiro, the placement fee is to cover marketing, screening, showing, etc... they did none of this.

I don’t negotiate if I already have what I want/need to cover my costs to bring it back to “rent ready” condition.  

Is there an opportunity to improve this rate through better management, screening, updates?