Imagine 1x6 spanned 12 feet with nothing in the middle to support it.

Went great for a while.However, the tenant stopped paying, was evicted, moved out in the middle of the night  . . . something.Then the huge cash flow stopped.  

Orlando and Tampa are closing in and Lakeland is right in the middle.

You can cut out the middle man on renovations and have some instant equity.

I am in the middle of closing on my first piece of real estate ever!

The latter seems to provide a middle ground that could enable professional maintenance oversight while allowing me to retain some control, mainly through tenant communication and management portals like RentRedi.

When I first came to Stockton (1985) the bad areas were south of what is now the crosstown freeway (built around 1985; middle of downtown) and a few pockets north of that. 

Are you on the edge of a crime zone or are you smack in the middle. 

Middle school dances and starting a business…In many ways, creating a business is really like attending your first middle school dance.

Generally how it works is if commission is 100k and 3 people on a team then 50k goes to brokerage, about 27k goes to senior broker,15k goes to middle broker,  then 8k to junior broker.As you can see they have to do a lot of volume to equal what I make in one transaction so they tend not to want to deal with unknown buyers but feel more comfortable working with a broker on the other end.