He got into a habit of texting me and I was going along with it despite my contract saying otherwise. 

As a manager there are plenty of responsibilities and liabilities you have to be aware of to make sure you don't leave yourself or your clients in harm's way.

And the original owner won't get any more harm if he doesn't pay the subsequent taxes. 

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

Thank you for info....to be honest I have a really neat name idea...suppose a name in itself wouldn't be harmful as long as kept seperate?

We don't usually track for ownership changes on taxes, just that their current.Whenever i get asked "why do you care, as long as the payment is made", i let them know that 70% of my portfolio is investor owned, and my investor cares, because my investor has a borrower that is legally obligated (sometimes personally depending on loan type and state) to fulfill certain covenants of the loan (Can't run a meth lab, promise to keep it in habitable condition, promise to carry insurance at certain parameters with me as the mortgagee, promise not to sell it without permission, promise not to put my lien in jeopardy, yadda yadda, etc., etc..

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

I hired a lawyer for $1200 bucks to threaten a defamation suit and I had them sign an agreement preventing them from saying anything harmful about our company in exchange for their deposit.

Over nearly 30 years, and thousands of application reviews, I can tell you Bad Habits in one area are typically found in all areas of an Applicants past.

That leaves only the laundry.Much better to split out the second apartment.No harm in asking ComEd to wire in two new meters, I guess, but I don't see the point in busting out stairs and a laundry.