At the time, I was a digital marketing manager and luxury real estate assistant (licensed out of CA) working out of North County for a great agent.

Also, you should read this book by @Phil Capron which can give you a good foundation for using your VA loan to invest: https://www.amazon.com/Your-VA-Loan-Make-Millionaire-ebook/dp/B081988SN7Best of luck in the future!

Aside from providing the basics (ie. listing tool to get the property published to 10+ major sites, scheduling tool to schedule viewings, tenant screening with comprehensive applications -- pulled reports from TransUnion, which include nationwide criminal background checks + credit checks + eviction history, digital lease creation tool, rent collection tool, and maintenance tracking tool), some services also offer your tenants additional capabilities which makes it an easier sell on your end when getting them to transition over (ie. their ability to report on-time rent payments to the credit bureaus; this can create an added incentive for making sure they pay that rent on time).

Buyer is balking, says I need to create notes with double digit yield to be attractive. 

It's always just the last 4 digits of the phone number they booked with for me, then my email campaigns don't have to change.  

I'm used to hearing taxes in the low single digit % rate, and for him to come back with 40% made me think some city was trying to get away with taxing 40% of property value a year.  

I'm interested in hearing what others are planning because I'm at a total loss.I have a digital marketing business that focuses on realtors and last week I had no problem selling leads and appointments.This week everyone is saying that they don't want to invest in appointments because they don't know if they will physically be able to show houses because of quarantines or lock-downs.I can't fault their logic so I'm looking for a way to help them in the meantime.

All home categories improved by double digits.

Or suggestions on a private lender willing to do something like this with a single digit interest rate and a medium- long term (i.e.

Is this really that odd of a habit in today's digital world?