Unless your agent is available 24/7 and can submit your offer like a hot potato, you may be disadvantaged by waiting an extra day.They may have been in the business for 5 minutes and have less experience than you.The listing agent gets to keep 6% of the commission if no buyers agent is involved.

Once you have identified the handful of heavy hitters, I would suggest volunteering in their office as much as you can.Even it it's just cleaning or answering phones - you will pick up some good tid-bits through osmosis.  

The bill is small potatoes, was expecting under $100 and it was for over $200. 

Im hoping to learn all the fundamentals of investing, as it's hard to find all the meat and potatoes in one place like this website.

Some of the challenges:1) Pairing clients with properties that with an affordable plan yield the results the clients need2) Get the property into contract in this aggressive sellers' market with strong STR property buyer competition3) Deep due diligence to minimize property risk during inspection period + create best COE plan to yield the highest possible cash flow + start scheduling post-COE reno work4) After COE, get the hot potato moving- help in any way necessary to make sure my clients get this work done quickly and without complications so they can get their property on the rental market ASAP and start generating cash flow.5) Occasional STR audits as requested (always an option) by clients, to further boost their cash flow, and effectively their home value- based on income approach.

A reverse osmosis system (for your drinking water taps only) will take care of the sodium, it's not a huge concern unless you have high blood pressure or on a salt restricted diet.

We're still small potatoes, but are in love with the area. 

It's a game of hot potato, because with the demand for housing, you can always get more out of a property than you bought it for...until suddenly it's worthless and you can't, because it's literally falling apart.This has worked as a ratchet on prices for property in China, such that in many not-very-desirable areas in the Chinese cities with employment, a small apartment can be $200k-$500k, where people on average are only making $5k per year!!!!

Team member agents get to eat at my table, and with that gain the knowledge and experience via osmosis and training sessions, gaining their own expertise in time, and for myself I gain time leverage power, the ability to service more clients than I could alone as a factor of 1.  

We had a ton of small flies in our house and found a bag of potatoes made their way to the back of the pantry and were the source once we removed then problem went away.