In fact, I have found that an inexperienced or unknowledgeable or untalented broker is a detriment while the “best” broker in a given arena provides value far in excess of their fee.     

As JCC said, that does not mean it should be bought, as it might actually be that better numbers could be found in that market.

I actually have cash for the property.

I actually interned for a company in Iowa City that did real estate, property management, new home construction and development.

We actually got our one duplex under contract while my wife was about 8 months pregnant.  

My question back to you about Balance sheet is what % of RE investors that are not accountants understand what a balance sheet is and how do they actually use it? 

I actually hired this tax company in the Fall of 2021 to do my 2021 return and continued using him for this year (2022 return).

First, don't use REI Reply, it's just a white-labelled/private-agency version of GoHighLevel (the actual provider of the CRM) that they just mark up and charge you extra for everything you do (every text, email, etc is 2-10x more expensive than just linking twilio/mailgun to your GHL account, etc).With that out of the way, you can get to making workflows.

Cameras do not catch her actually taking anything because it was dark.  

So I have had many potentials and only 4 actually move in from this, but worth it in conjunction with whatever Padsplit is doing.