It does appear that paying off the mortgage is not specifically included as a recoverable cost, but intuitively it seems like it should be.  

There are qualities to properties and locations, intuition based on local experience matters.To the degree you develop your local market knowledge and hone your skills to develop the qualitative sense, you will begin to gain a competitive advantage.That’s what I have in Greenville SC.Good luck.Arn

Our owners like the reports (we are a property management company)  Thanks Laura - It is pretty customizable (in certain respects), but after having tried ZInspector as well, it seems more intuitive on the items it lists for you to check, for one. 

Since I use QuickBooks, I use Intuit Payment Network.

Relatively few brokerages across these great states actually enforce minimum sales standards and things like that, so as a licensed person you would be free to do as much or as little business as you’d like, but still have access to the training offered by that brokerage or brand.As an investor who is also a retail agent (helping people buy and sell their personal home) I would tell you that the investment side will teach you more than the retail side,  but you’ll gain some valuable understanding (especially in terms of understanding market value at an intuition level)

Hey @Katrina Razavi your thoughts on this are actually quite intuitive!

Trust your gut and intuition...if it feels like a dog & pony show with a lot of flash & money & sales pressure...it's most likely just that - a dog & pony show. 

This could turn intuit ability to cash out refi in the next 5 years and recoup your funds even faster (tax free I might add).When analyzing between dong A r B, an investor must look at all the possible angles as there are often times more than just 1 or the other.

Just my initial intuitive thought when I read your post.  

Per Wikipedia (see link below): "Speaking intuitively, IRR is designed to account for the time preference of money and investments.