I know I just ratified a transaction where I was selling a new build ( not yet built) and the broker representing the buyer had a very high buyers broker agreement that simply does not work for builders and what we have to do to manage the process.

There's always so many personal items left behind in the home we have to sort through.

However building built in 1922.....I have tried THREE (17,000), steadily can't find a carrier, Statefarm, Farmers, Amfam.  

Yes, agreed, I don't know where I got the idea you built and carried, may be was a comment from you yesteryears where you did a few.

You can hear real-world examples of how others have built their investment portfolio and (hopefully) learn to avoid their mistakes.4.

You can do this simply by changing your bedding colors and the colors of accent items like throw pillows and towels. 

I develop a high level scope of work and then make my own estimates for each item.

I successfully run 1 STR and have a 2nd that an inherited PM handles.I have Vrbo and Airbnb they will sync with each other with no external software.I set pricing easily by using the built in tools that Vrbo provides.Automated messages are built into both platforms.Vrbo keeps my calendar slammed, but I take direct bookings as needed, simple to do.I have no additional 3rd party fees to very sucessfuly run and manage my property needing only a a few minutes per week.

For decades many of America's largest companies have sold items to our Gov at crazy high values.

For me, I had no goals but found that two of the deals that I did, the seller looked me up on FB and said that they felt good about me pretty much because they got to know me through videos / posts that I made and I suppose that it built trust with them.