Our focus is on delivering 20 top-tier leads each week, so you can spend less time on lead generation and more time closing deals.If you’re interested in streamlining your lead flow and enhancing your success in the Texas market, I’d love to discuss how we can work together.Looking forward to your thoughts!

I have not besides walkthrough videos taken by the realtor. 

If your realtor is listing it for free and not helping, that's not much help since leaving you to screen tenants and run through leads is like asking you to perform knee surgery, you don't know what you are doing.All rental listings should get bombarded on Zillow Rental Manager and HotPads, etc in the first week so if you have limited activity, your price is either too high or the photos are bad and the copy about the place is bad.Use something like RentSpree from screening.

I’m planning to take the test on second week of January  

Easiest and least costly is to go there and spend a week or so to get everything in order.Another one is to hire someone trustworthy and pay them to put it in their garage or in a storage unit for a month

Over the last three weeks I've read 7 of the real estate books and spent hours listening to biggerpockets podcasts trying to learn as much as a I can and narrow down my focus.

I’m also a long term equity guy, so just having tenant pay my mortgage is enough of a deal in current climate.On the positive rents are very high for this area and even this time of year when normally I’d see no leads for an open unit I’m seeing 1-2 a week for unit we’re remodeling.Good luck in the search and congrats for doing it yourself.  

I consider myself a discount broker, listing at 1.75% on my side but my listings still have professional photos, videos,open houses, and marketing.

Quote from @Chas Lumley: Hey all,I'm looking to make an offer on my first rental this week and was wanting to get different inputs on LLC vs Umbrella policies.I will be using a conventional loan and I was told by my loan officer that I can not buy the property under an LLC, but I could transfer to an LLC after acquiring. 

We had a few hiccups with the timing of contractors on site and it lead to a 4 to 6 week delay.