Because when the seller realizes he or she is not going to have to pay 6% of the purchase price to an agent I can negotiate a lower price and the seller is more likely to agree.The process was simple with the guidance of a good real estate attorney.

If you are doing volume, find an agent who will slash their fee and hope they can capture the buyer. 

My answer was simple.

I would expect it to be more, but our STR is quite simple, nothing fancy.For the record - rents should being going up because so have the taxes...

It's not as simple as many make it seem.

For SF purchases I would target $10K to $30K equity capture, 10%+ cash on cash return and $10K to $40K out of pocket.  

I would even venture to guess that it is not a simple letter to the lender or trade that gets a lien release.   

I manage it all with linked Excel spreadsheets and do my own taxes with TurboTax.Keep it simple and use the time and expense saved to get away from your desk and acquire more properties.

Once I asked a simple question about the backlinks and he sent me a Loom answering the question then spent 10 min sharing suggestions for my site's on-page.I once DM'd  Andy regarding some formatting he uses on one of his sites.

any simple alternate solutions you can think of?