From a mid sized FL PM -You are doing a lot of what I do for my clients, but at a smaller capacity. 

Just wanted to chime in since I did have some first hand knowledge and like everything paid training wise on BP there is a definite bias AGAINST and a thought process U can learn everything for free on BP and you should save your 9k and buy a 40k house in the mid west LOL.Lastly on the phone pitches and again to be as honest as I can be based on my experience.

This is for our mid west or land deals we do outside of the west coast.. we do a LOT of land deals/ FLips  in the Rockies and so on. 

Madison has pretty strict short term rental rules if you don't live at the property, so mid term furnished rentals is a strategy I have seen done here. 

Well in our market which is mid to low level for west coast  average transactions is around 600k.. so average fee is 12k and up.. 

I have been hearing more about airbnb in the area of East old Brooklyn directed toward travel nurses in the area

Mortgage rates declined to their lowest levels in over a year, a sample of more than a dozen industry professionals said they were quoting most borrowers in the high 5% to low 6% range on government loans and in the mid-6% range for conventional mortgages.

The mid-west is doing well.

Usually it is a few extra kids but we do get mid stay requests if a couple could come visit and stay a night and we always say yes with no issues.

In the mid-2000’s Robert Helms and Russell Gray ran a real estate club in Los Angeles that required you to take a series of classes before joining.