I can not afford to spend time on clients who are not exclusive.

@Lamario Hopson, in Alabama, as in virtually all other states, you must be in exclusive possession of property before you can quiet title.

The buyers agent however works exclusively for the buyer searching for properties that match a specific criteria.

Also sometimes an exclusive listing can be less because they don't have to share the commission with another agency.

Upon a sale, the amounts received from this deal would eat into the exclusion.9) The appreciation rights of the investor and the note could be sold off to other investors if either party got impatient.10) A maximum LTV on mortgages on the property in the range of 60% could be established to reduce the likelihood that the seller gets behind and does a short sale that wipes out the investor.11) If this arrangement might cause a problem for the homeowner when refinancing or taking out a HELOC, the investor could agree that the investor's interest is subordinated.Benefits: The homeowner's net worth is less concentrated in Silicon Valley single family home performance, and the investor gets a leveraged return on an asset that has potential to appreciate at faster than the rate of inflation.

I use Airbnb exclusively for all my rentals and there's hardly a day not booked.

Let's assume the big concern are the tax implications since the projected gain before the exclusion is $1.2M; see projected gain calculation below.

The BTA ruled that “where the owner of rental property devotes it rental purposes and exclusively to the production of taxable income, the property is used by him in a trade or business”.On appeal, the 6th Circuit came to the conclusion that the building (rented to multiple tenants) was a TB, but they got there via different means.

If you were going to live there for 2 years and rehab during that time then it may make sense to live in one of the units for this $500K exclusion.

For example, if I want to sell a five-unit multifamily in Washington DC, it seems these agencies will market almost exclusively to their own clients -- and thus end up on both sides of the deal (dual agency).