Until you possess a skill set that makes you desirable just due to your knowledge/ability, you're going to be hard pressed to find someone to shell out cash for an investment if they have to do all the work.

Another great book is Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs by Muhammed Yunus. 

Then a fresh coat of paint applied.We are really pressed for time here and I'm thinking of just spray painting over the exiting surface with a high quality, rust resistant spray paint.Do any contractors know how long it will last and if I'm just being foolish cutting corners?

The site should have, among other things; information about the home, the neighborhood (schools, shopping, etc), interactive virtual tours (where you can actually navigate through the property similar to google street view, not just the traditional "virtual tours" which are essentially glorified slideshows with background music/narration), video of a drone aerial property survey, CMA data and pricing justification, links to any press on the property, and a way to easily/discreetly inquire about the property or schedule a private viewing.Something else that I find is almost always advantageous is using the avenues provided by the neighborhood you are in to help sell the home.  

Your tenant should just look for a GFCI outlet, possibly in a garage or water heater closet or inside the condo, and press the reset button.

Finally, while promising a “100% refund” of the service fee if it did not provide the promised mortgage relief services, consumers who tried to get their money back could not do so.https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/201...What you see above is simply illegal - it's not what the REI gurus teach (dean, scott & amy, dave & pete, blah blah blah).  

Otherwise, I would say that your brother should respect the fact that the tenants are customers, and not employees, and if he wants to take a chance on alienating them, then you should just press on full steam ahead. 

A site like NOLO Press is likely to help.

As a RE  Agent you will be working as an Independent  Contractor and by TREC or  RE law no brokerage firm can fix  your hours or limit you to work under  certain conditions its  totally  depends upon you.However, if you are working with small boutique style brokerage  firms its  easy to work independently butt when you are working for big firms its better to go to office and get some real time experience they also have the option of giving bench time which allows you to  take walk in customers if any.

I know it's been getting a lot of bad press lately.