My long term goal is to generate a passive income through "buy and hold" investing which will enable me to invest on a full time basis.I look forward to belonging to and learning from the Bigger Pockets Community.

The introduction of residential air conditioning in the 1920s helped enable the great migration to the Sun Belt in the United States."

Hi Kevin,Welcome to Bigger Pockets.You want to treat investing in Real Estate like a business.As a Real Estate investor you need to delegate and have different "subsidiaries" to make you "business" successful.Property Management would be one, along with contractors, accountant, attorney, etc....Having this in place will also enable you to grow quicker as you won't be running around doing all of the work yourself.Just my opinion.Thanks and have a great day.

Aaron,Knowing your product well will enable you to "sound" as though you have experience, to an extent.

The Break-Even Calculator enables you to determine the purchase price where the recurring costs equals the income.If the Break-Even Price is lower than the Actual Sold Price it is unlikely that properties in that city will generate a positive cash flow.

The benefit to him was to enable him to build his portfolio and continue to develop his expertise in 3D modeling. 

This enables me to get top dollar and sell quicker.

That enabled me to  by a 30,000 ft.² office building.

This enables renters to become homeowners.

A company has to have either a broker or an attorney to enable it to act as an agent.Generally if you are acting as an agent without having a license, your client only has to complain to the department of real estate and you will not be able to collect any commission.Buying and selling leads is different from acting as a real estate agent.