In Minneapolis, the Downtown East Commons Park, initially built for Super Bowl LII, has helped attract office buildings and residential developments.

Closing on a 1% deal tomorrow in far North Texas, these are very common. 

In my small city (70,000 or so) we have a university with about 20,000 students with a nursing school, hospital, and obviously several mid size employers that I’m sure have people travel into this area for business purposes.  

Split-fee: most common and split between the Host and guest. 

Since you are a real estate agent you are considered to be "self-employed", which means you qualify for Solo 401k plan.

Unfortunately it's a common problem.

Since SF is a special case, this risk is pretty common.

For example, there's an Employment Verification Form, Forwarding Address Form for Deposit Refund, and so forth, that you can request your tenant to fill out.I want to make sure I'm not missing anything (as well as protecting myself) but also don't want to over-burden the tenant. 

With the large employers (Nike, Intel and others), the west side from Beaverton out to Hillsboro is a great place to invest if you have a long-term lens. 

This is ideal for investors with multiple properties or self-employed individuals, as it allows them to qualify based on the cash flow of the asset rather than personal tax returns or W-2s.2.