My sales territory brings me out of baton rouge a couple days a week, but if I'm in town I'll try to make it. 

Welcome to the community - I love the Howard County presence as a Clarksville, MD native!  

The whole article is suspect when clearly the author doesn't seem to actually understand what a promissory note is and it's presence in all real estate financing and is not a result of a short sale.Moral of the story, there is more to the statue of limitations when it comes to enforcement of promissory notes secured by mortgages and deed of trusts.  

These are examples but is there an actual list of condition issues that make a house not worthy of financing (in Fannie Mae guidelines for example) or is this nebulous territory?

You do not need to live in Ohio to become licensed.You do however need to fly to Ohio to go to school.There is no online presence licensing curriculum for an Ohio Real Estate license

I questioned the CPA, in presence of the business owner - why was this not taken care in the first two months of his engagement.

The story in my town is that the schools are good and it is a very good alternative to the tier 1 cities of Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Burlingame, which have reached beyond crazy territory.

Both Point2 and ListHub serve brokers and agents by helping them to expand their digital presence online," said Gordon Morrell, chief operating officer of Point2.

In fact, I believe I heard her come back around 1am two nights ago but that was the last time I heard or seen her presence. 

It's the absolute most important thing that can drive your profitability; whether you are marketing yourself by social networking, direct mail, on-line presence, mass exposure etc. it's imperative to creating consistent deals.Once you get the leads follow up.And just a general response to the "only take advice from someone in the business more than 20 years" - I would personally revise that to say "only take advice from someone his is where you want to be".