They don't mind a few days off here and there, but they work cheap for a variety of reasons.

A decline in the local homeownership rate for a variety of reasons, including foreclosures, has expanded the renter pool.

Huge variety block by block.

That being said, we are considering a variety of investment opportunities for passive investing and will be talking to several companies.

As others have demonstrated, there are a variety of ways to get started with low and no money down, but the old saying "Cash is King," is true in my opinion.As Thomas S., said, "I do not believe investing and building wealth is a race."  

My advice is to learn as much as you can about a wide variety of related topics: real estate, construction, maintenance, investing, finance, law, business, sales, marketing, etc.  

For this purpose, they probably won't be the pre-finished variety, but rather ones that need to be completely stripped, re-painted, etc. 

My personal interest is in understanding better the variety of options to take to get pluggedin with a broker.  

Their employees perform a variety of functions, including water quality and law enforcement, fire suppression, harvest regulation, and even timber industry promotion.

Typically Mortgage Bankers are going to do their loans in house, have a wide variety of banks/lenders to sell to.