After communicating with the company, I walked away without owing a dime and got it in writing from AG office. 

Absolutely, but is it the most efficient means to reach your goal?

Being able to build the best birdhouse is absolutely worthless if you can't run a business efficiently and profitably.

This leads me to start pondering how I can best create a system for when I start scaling so I can make resolving repairs and issues as cost effectively and efficiently as possible.

They make good margins because they are fundamentally cost efficient. 

His communication is horrible and he suspiciously asks for lots of money upfront.

You've all been so helpful so far.It seems no matter how much I reiterate my application criteria in my ads and in my communications with people, I am inundated with people who don't qualify.

@Jacob Beran I would continue to communicate to the neighbor what I expected to happen.

Cost efficiency makes it cheaper to set up and maintain than multiple LLCs.3.

Sure you can combine all the strategies to try to 'dominate a neighborhood' but realistically either time or money, or both are bottlenecks for you.You could try your 6 strategies and document your results or do some split testing, then determine which is the most efficient and focus on that.Good luck.