. - Leverage your database, clients (past and present) and experienced/busy agents in your brokerage or market.

There is also the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing present in every contract.

Each of the above should be presented and signed off by the investor.

If an agent can't rattle out minimum of 3 purchase strategies with 3 exit strategies for any 1 property, they should NOT present themself as being proficient, they should be HONEST and say there not 100%. 

I was the featured speaker with a local group (actually nationally presented) on building energy efficient homes. 

There has been some decent advice presented here in general.  

It depends on the terms and conditions of your application (hopefully you presented a formal offer to lease that provided for forfeiture of deposit if the tenant failed to take possession).

Diversifying can be a risk if you don't know all the nuances, the learning curve isnt' as steep as STR, but if you are looking OOS, that presents new challenges.If STR is the path, are there places you like to vacation, that is always a good place to start.

The Ashe Park Rd deal taught us valuable lessons and presented challenges.

The way that I think of a forum post is as a presentation.