Partnered with a college roommate to finance his project.  

-Seeking funding (brokers or creative) most likely FHA-Appraising and estimating repair costs alongside professionals to get an idea of the process-Building relationships with contractors, getting estimates on potential projects (also, reading to get a general sense of ARP)-Learning and executing rehabs, by self and delegating to contractors.

I’m still very young and looking to start building a portfolio, however, I wanted to grab one of these properties and finance, to free up as much of my (soon to be) capital to begin additional projects.

One project being an 84 unit complex on 5 acres.

It was good for several reasons, it got me up close to houses that I had an interest in to see the basic condition, it gave me a sense of the neighborhood and each block.

Basically that is coverage that an insurance company provides in the event you have a covered loss to part of your property and when you go to rebuild you have additional costs due to bringing the property up to current city or county codes. 

Basically, every single month, she added those two fees to the ledger, but they were never listed on my owner statement.

The house is solid, with no nightmarish issues costing us big bucks, or rather, nothing that I couldn't handle myself, with my ever-expanding renovation background, for basically peanuts.

We love visiting Charleston and have been thinking of doing our next project in the area.

You are not paying them to be forwarded information you collected by managing your own property.Even though some responsibility is borne by the PM here, from where I sit this is also a huge strike against the tenants, who basically are thumbing their nose at your rules and the lease they signed.