This comes with time and experience but a book that helped me tremendously (not really a sales book, though) was "Boundaries" by Henry Cloud.The most common challenges for RE Agents early relate to generating leads and focusing on income producing activity.I would consider spending 50-75% of your side-hustle time on income generating activities. 

Is it unreasonable that they would expect aid for a climate related impact?

So, the FB group and the coaches you get are all relatively inexperienced as far as I can tell.

This is because it's relatively easy to remodel in the Winter but it's nearly impossible to find a great tenant in the Winter.

It’s relatively simple and, while it does cost money, it’s one of the more cost-effective options.

Gotta 1 up @Jonathan Greene its for sure a different and more relational game. 

I knew there were others out there going through the same thing :) I agree- we've been able to work with investor-friendly lenders to secure conventional loans that allow us to buy properties and honestly, i've never really leveraged credit cards for RE or RE related purchases so this was slightly new territory for me.

  - Always do a sewer scope during inspection.  90% of the "major" expenses Ive seen that surprise new buyers are sewer related.   

Quote from @Nuatu Tseggai: I contributed a home recently (May 2022).Overall process was relatively smooth.

I will go off my experience, because that's all I can deeply relate to.