I'm all for someone working with us and making money but it's hard to distinguish authenticity and I'm not sure who exactly does these things.

I don't seem to be able to distinguish between the two types of companies on turnkey-reviews.com  For example, there is your site, http://profitfromrentals.com, where you seem to purchase the properties and do all of the turnkey work and then there are other sites like (from what I understand) Maverick who simply connect you with the providers.  

No sure why the disparaging comments to other careers, I'm sure it's not a stretch to label being a police officer as nothing magical either if you consider the job as riding around in a car all day.I'm personally of the notion that no job or career is very difficult, the distinction of ones accomplishments as any business owner, is based upon individuals and their accomplishments, their ranking in the market position etc..Just to distinguish a business owner from an employee puts the most lack luster business owner head and shoulders above the average employee just in terms of the business owner at least has something at risk everyday, is responsible for creating jobs and supporting employees and their families. 

As an agent, I am always thinking of ways to start branding myself now so that when I am ready to become a broker and form my own brokerage, I would have already become a recognizable entity in the industry and in the community.Have any real estate agents established LLCs or DBAs in order to distinguish themselves apart from the brand their brokerage?

Way back when I was a few years into my first job, a distinguished looking older gentleman in the elevator asked me (since the firm I worked for had the entire floor) what I did there.

Brandon,Do you have to distinguish the "for sale" vs "for rent" listings in your MLS?

Assuming a property is intended as a long term hold you need to distinguish between two categorizes;Immediate Repairs - Broken and needs to be fixed as part of purchase, setting its age to 0yFull & Lapsed life time - Will need to be replaced at some pointAssuming you do not want to have a 'cash call' (as this will reduce your overall long term returns), for each item on a CAPEX list you need to go through the exercise of figuring out where it is in its life cycle and how much it will cost to replace / do.

Also, distinguish whether you want active or passive income, as some members mentioned, as it will help narrow down your investment strategy.

Of course, this meant investing in upgrades the properties, and allowing pets to distinguish them from the rest of the market, so there are tradeoffs.  

I do think that Michael Bluejay's argument is flawed because he did not distinguish between houses and real estate.