A bag of bird seed and a pellet gun.

The pay as a second job is great and provides a great way to make seed money to invest (Beats delivering pizza)Recommendations to help leverage your time as an agent:1.

It will motovate you to contijually eduacate yourself on value points and options in a deal jo MBA necessaryNegotiation skills and tenacity with a focus on delivering value will be the cornerstone’s of your success if you meed faster deal turns focus on  small kixed use to cut your teethe and being in revenue to seed your growth best of luck 

A lot of the people that move from NY to the Poconos move for the cheap home prices and the safer communities, but this area is where a lot of the bad seeds that moved seem to congregate.  

I'd like to bring my parents into a STR deal where my wife and I would present the majority of the up-front capital and handle all of the management, and my parents would provide additional seed capital to get us above a 20% down payment.

Eat the watermelon, spit out the seeds.

Otherwise, it feels like you're trying to go about this deal in a roundabout way, and kind of plants the seeds of an ulterior motive right up front. 

As you build the relationship and maintain ongoing communication with these lenders you stay top of mind and continue to plan the seed that if they have any other inventory available you give yourself the best opportunity to be at the top of their list.  

Tax the seeds not the crops. 

Rich Dad Poor Dad was the seed.