How to create cashflow, add value, add doors, find opportunities in zoning = how to play the long game now in buy and hold purchasing and needs to be the mindset in this market. 

Main reason is we dont play the bank .

There are many variables are play. The

To play the devil's advocate here...Sec 199A isn't the only change for 2018 under the TCJA by far. 

That's where IRR comes into play. The

From a purchase perspective it does take money and income to ‘play the real estate game’.  

I'll play the devil's advocate and say that you absolutely do need your own website/mailing list/CRM/etc because those are the only platforms you can truly own your customer data and engage directly with your customers without the filter of an intermediary stepping in to define the rules of engagement. 

Unless there are local laws against it, I assume you can rent single rooms to more than one person too.In real estate deals there's always way to play the shell game to change where and from who the money comes from, but in general the seller covers all of the agent fees.

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tenant base etc etc.. when those things align in a positive way you will have values rise more than a few % A year I mean 3% appreciation on 100k houses does not really do much for the investor other than make their spread sheet look good.So to me you play the cards your dealt.. in some markets were the rise in values is suspect at best.. then for sure you need cash flow and a lot of it to make any sense of going through the landlord experience..